[31] Timæus, in the Dialogue which bears his name, is represented by
Plato as saying this; for, speaking of the world, he says γεγονεναι, _it
was generated_.
[32] See my Translation of the Commentaries of Proclus on the Timæus,
vol. i. from p. 237 to p. 251. And also the Commentary of the same
incomparable man on the words of Plato, in the same Dialogue, “But we
say that whatever is generated, is necessarily generated by a certain
cause.”—Vol. i. of my Translation, p. 249, &c.
[33] viz. Whether the world is unbegotten, or generated.
[34] The sentence in the original is: εθος δε Πλατωνι διδασκαλιας
χαριν, ὡς γινομενα παραδιδοναι. But immediately after χαριν, it is
obviously necessary to add αγενητα. Mahotius also, who published a Latin
translation of this work of Philoponus, has, “Mos est autem Platoni,
doctrinæ gratia, _quæ ortu carent_, perinde atque ea, quæ oriuntur,
explicare.”