The modern edition of the Arabic commentary to a Greek Pythagorean poem known as the Golden Verses, attributed to Proclus, was first published in 1984, more than a quarter century ago. Despite the fact that this Graeco-Arabic text is an interesting example of a late antique Neoplatonic philosophical commentary and it offers a Neoplatonic interpretation of various elements of the Pythagorean tradition, it has hardly been studied as such at all. In this article I argue that there exist enough

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... ments to conclude that this text contains a number of genuine Neoplatonic elements and should be studied along with the other late antique texts from this tradition. Moreover, I demonstrate that in all probability this text actually comes from the inner circle of Proclus Diado chus' students, or from the philosopher himself.