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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Fausto Montana and first published on 30/11/2004.

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Biography:

Harpocration was an exponent of Middle Platonism¹ and a student of Atticus². Proclus³ (in Remp. 2, p. 96, 11-13 Kroll) mentions him among τῶν Πλατωνικῶν οἱ κορυφαῖοι in the era before Porphyry⁴. Within these restrictions he is…