Proclus or Proklos () is the name of one of the eminent artists in

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who flourished in the Augustan Age. He was revered for his work on the Tychaeum at

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. His name occurs on two inscriptions found at Perinthus. From one of these we learn that he adorned the temple of

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in that city, and that the

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n merchants who frequented the city erected a statue in honour of him. The second inscription is the epitaph of a mosaic artist, who is said in it to have left a son, his associate and equal in the art; from which it would seem probable that both father and son were named Proclus. The second inscription, as restored, runs thus:

πάσαις ἐν πολίεσσι τέχνην ἤσκησα πρὸ πάντων
ψηφοδέτας, δώροις Παλλάδος εὑράμενος,
υἷα λιπὼν βουλῆς σύνεδρον Πρόκλον ἰσότεχνὸν μοι
ὀγδωκοντούτης τοῦδε τάφοιο λαχών.Bockh, ''Corpus Inscriptionum'' ii.68 nn. 2024, 2025; Welcker, ''Rheinisches Museum'' 1 (1833) 289; R. Rochette, ''Lettre à M. Schorn'' p. 393.

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