[155] Simplicius and his companions ended their lives in peace and obscurity; and as they left no disciples, they terminate the long list of Grecian philosophers, who may be justly praised, notwithstanding their defects, as the wisest and most virtuous of their contemporaries.

The writings of Simplicius are now extant.

His physical and metaphysical commentaries on Aristotle have passed away with the fashion of the times; but his moral interpretation of Epictetus is preserved in the library of nations, as a classic book, most excellently adapted to direct the will, to purify the heart, and to confirm the understanding, by a just confidence in the nature both of God and man.
[Footnote 151: This is no fanciful aera: the Pagans reckoned their calamities from the reign of their hero.

Proclus, whose nativity is marked by his horoscope, (A.D.412, February 8, at C.P.,) died 124 years, A.D.485, (Marin.

in Vita Procli, c.