Δῶρος

The one from Arabia. As Damascius says in his Philosophical History,¹ he was a most remarkable investigator of the truth. Isidore the philosopher² perceived initially that he was caught up in Aristotle’s propositions, seeing that from boyhood he had been raised amid them, and even further than his youth, and on account of his inexperience with great-minded Plato’s knowledge, not able to mount to the loftiness and brillance of his thoughts. Isidore, learning the state he was in, called him forth quickly and elevated his soul to the great sea of the truth, so that he put aside the Peripatetic pedantry that syllogizes over trifles and hastened up to the dialectic that has been sent down by the most conspicuous fire of a sort of Prometheus,³ which is a very pure, direct beholding of the mind and thought and in it realized the philosophical hopes of life.