Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 1: In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four PeriodsPlotinus
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Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 1: In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods
Plotinus
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[208] See Acts, xvii. 25, 27, 28.
[209] See iv. 3.7, following the Phaedrus of Plato.
[210] Cupid and Psyche, as interpreted by Apuleius.
[211] See iii. 5.2.
[212] See iii. 5.4.
[213] See iii. 5.7-9.
[214] See v. 5.11; i. 6.7, 8; v. 8.4; vi. 9.11. It has been contended
that this was a description of the Isiac temple in Rome.
[215] Num. 10.
[216] By virtue of which, according to the Pythagoreans, the dyad
"dared" to issue from the unity.
[217] That is the desire which leads souls to separate themselves
primitively from the divinity, and to unite themselves to bodies.
[218] We have seen this elsewhere, i. 3.1.
[219] See ii. 2.3.
[220] Iliad xx. 65.
[221] See vi. 4.4.
[222] As said Heraclitus, Plutarch, Banquet, iv. 4.
[223] See iv. 7.10.
[224] See i. 2.3; iv. 3.11.
[225] See iii. 9.5.
[226] As thought Plato in his Cratylus, C. xi. 39, and Macrobins, in
his Commentary on the Dream of Scipio, i. 11.
[227] See i. 8.2; ii. 9.2.
[228] See iii. 7.2-4.
[229] See v. 9.2, 7.
[230] See vi. 2.
[231] See vi. 8.
[232] See vi. 3.
[233] See iii. 6.1.
[234] Pun on "ideas" and "forms."
[235] vi. 9. 11. This seems to refer to the Roman temple of Isis in
front of which stood the statues of the divinities, vi. 9.11.
[236] Would be soul, instead of intelligence.
[237] See v. 4.1.
[238] See iii. 8.10.
[239] As thought Plato, Laws, x.; see ii. 2.3.
[240] See iii. 6.19.
[241] As thought Plato, in the Cratylos, C. xi. 39.
[242] This paragraph is founded on Numenius 36, 39.
[243] See Plato's Second Letter, 312; in English, Burges, p. 482; i.
8.2.
[244] In Timaeus, 34.
[245] In his Timaeus, C43.
[246] As quoted by Clemens Al. Strom. vi. p. 627.
[247] In Simplicius, Comm. in Phys. Arist., 9.
[248] See Plato's Sophists, C244.
[249] See ii. 7.7.
[250] See ii. 1.2.
[251] See ii. 4.7.
[252] See Metaph. xii. 7.8.
[253] Referring to Numenius's work on "The Good," and on the
"Immateriality of the Soul."
[254] In the Acibiades, C36.
[255] See i. 1.9.
[256] In his Timaeus, C30.
[257] In the Phaedrus.
[258] See iii. 6.5.
[259] See v. 3.3.
[260] From the circumference, see iii. 8.7.
[261] Cicero, Tusculans, i. 22.
[262] See i. 4.9.
[263] See iii. 9.9.
[264] See iii. 8.9.
[265] iii. 9.4.
[266] iii. 8.9.
[267] See v. 1.7.
[268] See i. 1.8; iv. 9.3.
[269] See iii. 4.1, 2.
[270] Fragment belonging here, apparently, but misplaced at end of next
paragraph.
[271] See v. 1.1.
[272] See iii. 4.2.
[273] See iv. 4.29; iv. 5.7.
[274] That is, in the principal power of the universal soul, see ii.
3.18.
[275] See vi. 5; that is, within intelligence.
[276] Between celestial and terrestrial life; see iii. 4.6.
[277] See iii. 8.7.
[278] Met. vii. 3.
[279] Met. v. 8.
[280] Diog. Laertes vii. 61.
[281] See Cicero, de Nat. Deor. i. 15.
[282] Met. viii. 1.
[283] See vi. 7.
[284] See i. 8.4.
[285] See i. 8.15.
[286] Plotinos's six categories are identity, difference, being, life,
motion and rest. See v. 1; v. 2; vi. 2.
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