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121 See i. 3.2.

122 See sect. 5, 6.

123 Plato, Banquet, p. 185, Cary, 12, 13.

124 By Plato, in his Cratylus, p. 396, Cary, 29, 30; interpreted to mean "pure Intelligence."

125 This is the principal power of the soul; see ii. 3.17.

126 See v. 8.12, 13.

127 Plotinos thus derives "eros" from "orasis," which, however far-fetched a derivation, is less so than that of Plato, from "esros," meaning to "flow into," Cratylos, p. 420, Cary, 79, 80.

128 For this distinction, see ii. 3.17, 18.

129 For the two Loves, see v. 8.13, and vi. 9.9.

130 See iii. 4.

131 See iv. 9.

132 Plato, Banq. 203: Cary, 29.

133 In his Isis and Osiris, p. 372, 374.

134 See i. 1.

135 Plato, Banquet, p. 202, Cary, 27, 28; Porphyry, de Abst. ii. 37, sqq.

136 In section 4.

137 Plato, Epinomis, p. 984, Cary, 8; Porphyry, de Abst. ii. 37–42.

138 See ii. 4.3.

139 See ii. 4.3.

140 An expression often used by the Platonists; see the Lexicon Platonicum, by the grammarian Timaeus, sub voce "oistra."

141 See Plato, Banquet, p. 203, Cary, 29.

142 See iii. 4.6.

143 See iii. 4.3.

144 A Stoic distinction.

145 P. 246, Cary, 56.

146 P. 28, Cary, 50.

147 Didymus, Etym. Magn. p. 179, Heidelb. p. 162, Lips.

148 Timaeus Locrius, of the Soul of the World, p. 550, ed. Gale, Cary, 4.

149 Origen, c. Cels., iv. p. 533.

150 "logoi."

151 Proclus, Theology of Plato, vi. 23.

152 As the generation of the world, in Plato's Timaeus, p. 28, 29, Cary, 9; and the erecting into separate Gods various powers of the same divinity, as Proclus said, in his commentary thereon, in Parm. i. 30.

153 ii. 3.17; ii. 9.2.

154 Pun on "Poros" and "euporia."

155 See ii. 4.16.

156 See books ii. 3; ii. 9; iii. 1, 2, 3, 4, for the foundations on which this summary of Plotinos's doctrine of evil is contained. To do this, he was compelled to return to Plato, whose Theaetetus, Statesman, Timaeus and Laws he consulted. Aristotle seems to have been more interested in natural phenomena and human virtue than in the root-questions of the destiny of the universe, and the nature of the divinity; so Plotinos studies him little here. But it will be seen that here Plotinos entirely returns to the later Plato, through Numenius.

157 As thought Empedocles, 318–320.

158 i. 6.2.

159 i. 8.7.

160 i. 8.3.