24pmBot2: BCW 7 Appendix: sourced summary, full quotation and bilingual metadata

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BCW 7 Appendix: sourced summary, full quotation and bilingual metadata

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	\|description=A Greek writer and mystic philosopher, known as a Commentator of Plato, and surnamed the Diadochus. He lived in the fifth century, and died, aged 75, at Athens A.D. 485. His last ardent disciple and follower and the translator of his works was Thomas Taylor of Norwich, who, says Brother Kenneth Mackenzie, “was a modern mystic who adopted the pagan faith as being the only veritable faith, and actually sacrificed doves to Venus, a goat to Bacchus and designed to immolate a bull to Jupiter” but was prevented by his landlady. {{ctd-source\|TG}}.		\|description=A Greek writer and mystic philosopher, known as a Commentator of Plato, and surnamed the Diadochus. He lived in the fifth century, and died, aged 75, at Athens A.D. 485. His last ardent disciple and follower and the translator of his works was Thomas Taylor of Norwich, who, says Brother Kenneth Mackenzie, “was a modern mystic who adopted the pagan faith as being the only veritable faith, and actually sacrificed doves to Venus, a goat to Bacchus and designed to immolate a bull to Jupiter” but was prevented by his landlady. {{ctd-source\|TG}}.
	\|quotes=H. P. Blavatsky
			A leading representative of later Neoplatonism, born at Constantinople and active at Athens. His extensive writings were chiefly devoted to explaining Plato. {{ctd-source\|BCW\|7\|389}}.
			\|quotes=H. P. Blavatsky; Zirkoff, Boris
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			\|start=0412-02-08
			\|end=0485-04-17
			\|categories=Writers; Philosophers
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