Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 In Chronological Order,...

161 As thought Plato in his Laws, iv. p. 716; Cary, 7, 8.

162 As thought Plato in his Philebus, p. 28; Cary 49, 50.

163 See v. 1; vi. 9.2.

164 Numenius, fr. 32.

165 As said Plato, in his second Letter, 2.312.

166 See iii. 8.9; iv. 7.14; vi. 4.2; vi. 9.2.

167 As held by Plato in the Parmenides and First Alcibiades.

168 See ii. 4.8–16.

169 It is noteworthy that Plotinos in his old age here finally recognizes Evil in itself, just as Plato in his later work, the Laws (x. p. 897; Cary, 8) adds to the good World-soul, an evil one. This, for Plotinos, was harking back to Numenius's evil world-soul, fr. 16.

170 In his First Alcibiades, p. 122; Cary, 37.

171 See i. 1.12.

172 This means created things, which are contingent and perishable; see ii. 4.5, 6.

173 See ii. 4.10–12. This idea of irradiation is practically emanationism; and besides Plotinos's interest in orientalism (Porphyry Biography, 3), it harks back to Numenius, fr. 26.3; 27a.10.

174 Held by Plato in his Theaetetus, p. 176; Cary, 84, 85; and Republic, ii. 279; Cary, 18, and of Numenius, fr. 16.

175 See i. 2.1.

176 In the Theaetetus, p. 176; Cary, 84, 85.

177 Numenius, fr. 10; Plato, Rep. vi. p. 509b; Cary, 19.

178 As Plato suggested in his Philebus, p. 23; Cary, 35–37.

179 Numenius, fr. 17.

180 Mentioned by Plato in the Timaeus, pp. 28, 30, 38; Cary, 9, 10, 14.

181 From the Timaeus, p. 41; Cary, 16, 17.

182 See i. 2.1; i. 6.8.

183 That is, the relative inferiority of beings which, proceeding from each other, become more and more distant from the good; see ii. 5.5; ii. 9.8, 13; v. 1; Philo, Leg. Alleg. ii. p. 74.

184 See i. 8.1.

185 ii. 4.12.

186 Numenius, fr. 26.3.

187 Diog. Laertes vii.

188 See ii. 6.

189 ii. 4.13.

190 i. 8.15.

191 As thought Plato in his Banquet, p. 211; Cary, 35.

192 As said Plato, Republic, vii. p. 534; Cary, 14.

193 As Plato says in his Phaedrus, p. 246; Cary, 54, 56.

194 As wrote Plato in his Banquet, p. 203; Cary, 28, 29, and see iii. 7.14 and iii. 5.9 as well as iii. 6.14.

195 According to the interpretation of Ficinus.

196 See ii. 4. This is an added confirmation of the chronological order; in the Enneadic order this book is later, not earlier.

197 Again a term discussed by Numenius, fr. ii. 8, 13; and iii; see i. 1.9; iv. 3.3, 30, 31; i. 4.10.

198 We notice how these latter studies of Plotinos do not take up any new problems, chiefly reviewing subjects touched on before. This accounts for Porphyry's attempt to group the Plotinic writings, systematically. This reminds us of the suggestion in the Biography, that except for the objections of Porphyry, Plotinos would have nothing to write. Notice also the system of the last Porphyrian treatises, contrasted with the more literary treatment of the later. All this supports Porphyry's table of chronological arrangement of the studies of Plotinos. This book is closely connected with the preceding studies of Fate and Providence, iii. 1–3; for he is here really opposing not the Gnostics he antagonized when dismissing Amelius, but the Stoic theories on Providence and Fate.

199 See iii. 1.5, 6; iii. 6; iv. 4.30–44.

200 Macrobins. In Somn. Scipionis.