A contemporary of Simplicius of Cilicia, Priscian was born in Lydia, probably in the late 5th century.
When Justinian I closed the school in 529, Priscian, together with Damascius, Simplicius, and four other colleagues were forced to seek asylum in the court of the Persian king Chosroes.
[2][3][4] Priscian mentions: Plato's Timaeus, Phaedo and Phaedrus; Aristotle's Politics, Physics, On the Heavens, Generation and Corruption, On Dreams and On Prophesying by Dreams; Hippocrates, Strabo's Geography, Ptolemy's Almagest, Iamblichus' On the Soul and the works of Plotinus and Proclus.
The list is a catalog of Neoplatonic works on cosmology and natural history.
It has also been suggested that the commentary on Aristotle's On the Soul attributed to Simplicius, was written by Priscian,[5] but this is disputed.