1 See 7.

2 See vi. 7, 8.

3 A.D. 262.

4 See vi. 5, 1.

5 See 20.

6 iii. 4.

7 See above, 6.

8 See iv. 2.

9 Often quoted by Porphyry in his Cave of the Nymphs.

10 See 3.

11 Euseb. Prep. Ev. xi. 2; xv. 4–9, 12–13.

12 See 3.

13 See ii. 3; iii. 1, 2, 4.

14 See v. 5.

15 This suggests that Suidas was right in claiming that Amelius was the teacher of Porphyry.

16 See 11.

17 See 7.

18 See 3.

19 See 3.

20 Mentioned in Porphyry's Life of Pythagoras, 48, living under Nero.

21 Living under Tiberius, see Suetonius, Life of Tiberius, 14.

22 See vi. 5.

23 See 17.

24 See 18.

25 See 17.

26 See ii. 3. 17.

27 See 23.

28 The fragments of all this are probably the Principles of the Theory of the Intelligibles, by Porphyry.

29 See ii. 1.

30 See i. 3.

31 As pilot, perhaps, iv. 3. 21.

32 See ii., 4. 6.

33 See ii. 7. 1.

34 See i. 1. 10.

35 See i. 9. 8. 10.

36 See iv. 3. 20, 21.

37 Ecl. Phys., p. 797, Heeren and Aristotle, de Anima, i. 2.

38 See Nemesius, de Nat. Hom. 2.

39 See ii. 7, 1.

40 See ii. 7, 3.

41 Stob. Ecl. Phys. 797.

42 See ii. 3, 5.

43 See ii. 7, 1.

44 ii. 4, 7.

45 See iv. 7, 8.

46 Euseb., Prep. Ev. xv. 17.

47 p. 54, Cousin.

48 Cicero, Tusculans, i. 9.

49 Ecl. Phys. 797, Cicero, de Nat. Deor. iii. 14.

50 See ii. 4, 1. 'pÔs echon.' of Dikearchus and Aristoxenus.

51 See ii. 6, on 'logos.'

52 See v. 7, 3.

53 iii. 2.

54 See iv. 2, 2.

55 iv. 2, 1.

56 Plutarch, de Placitis Philosoph, iii. 8. The Stoic definition of sensation being that senses are spirits stretched (by relays with "tension") from the directing principle to the organs.

57 de Nat. Hom. 2.

58 See iv. 4, 23. In the words of Zeno, as, for the Stoics, the principal act of the intelligence was comprehensive vision, "phantasia kataleptike."

59 de Anima, iii. 4, 5.

60 de Anima, i. 3.

61 de Anim. Arist. i. 2.

62 Cicero, Tusculans, i. 9.

63 See ii. 4, 1.

64 See iv. 7, 5.

65 See ii. 4, 1.

66 de Nat. Hom. 2.

67 See ii. 7.

68 See ii. 7, 1.

69 Nat. Hom. 2.

70 See ii. 4, 16.

71 As thought Chrysippus, in Plutarch, de Stoic. Repugnant.

72 See ii. 4, 16.

73 Met. xii. 6; see ii. 5, 3.

74 iv. 7, 3.

75 From end of iv. 2, 3.

76 Aristotle, de Anima, ii. 1.

77 Arist. de Anima, ii. 2; iii. 5.

78 See Aristotle, de Anima, i. 5.

79 See Aristotle, de Anima, ii. 2.

80 Here we resume Ennead IV. Book 7. The bracketed numbers are those of the Teubner text; the unbracketed those of the Didot edition.

81 Page 299, Cousin.

82 Quoted in i. 1, 12, in Republic x.

83 See i. 1, 11.

84 See i. 6, 9.

85 See viii. 62.

86 See i. 6, 5.

87 Page 297, Cousin.

88 See iv. 8, 5.

89 Pages 206, 312, 313, Cousin.

90 See iv. 8, 8.

91 See iv. 8, 6, 7.

92 See i. 1, 11.

93 See iv. 5, 7.

94 Cicero, Tusculans, i. 12–16.

95 Such as Porphyry's "Philosophy derived from Oracles."

96 Plato, in Diog. Laert., iii. 83.

97 Cicero, Tusculans, i. 18, 37.

98 Cicero, Tusculans, i. 12, 18; de Divinat, i. 58.

99 Chrysippus, in Cicero, de Fato, 10.

100 Cicero, de Finibus, i. 6.

101 Cicero, de Natura Deorum, i. 25.

102 Stobeus, Ecl. Phys. i. 6, p. 178.

103 Aulus Gellius, Noctes AtticÆ, vi. 2.

104 As thought the Stoics, Cicero, de Nat. Deor. ii. 11.

105 Cicero, de Divinatione, ii. 44.

106 As thought Plato, in the Phaedo, C81.

107 See i. 6.8.

108 See i. 3.1.

109 See i. 3.

110 See i. 6.2.

111 See i. 6.6.

112 See i. 6.9, and the Philebus of Plato, C64.

113 As suggested in the Phaedo of Plato.

114 See ii. 4.6.

115 The rational soul and intelligence, see iii. 9.5.

116 See ii. 9.12; iv. 4.14.

117 See ii. 3.17. 18; ii. 9.2, 3; vi. 4.9.

118 A pun on "reason," or "logos," i. 6.2; ii. 3.16; ii. 4.3; ii. 6.2; ii. 7.3.

119 See iv. 4.1012.

120 Far from the truth; see iii. 8.3. 7.

121 Stoics, see iv. 7.8.

122 Or Stoic form of inorganic objects.

123 The form of lower living beings.

124 The form of human nature.

125 See iv. 7.14.

126 Parmenides, see v. 1.8.

127 As Plato hints in his Cratylos, C50, by a pun between "soma" and "sozesthai."

128 The later theological "saved."

129 See Aristotle, de Gen. i. 18.

130 By Stoics.

131 See iii. 8.1–3.

132 See v. 5.1.

133 See v. 1.4.

134 In Greek a pun on "eidos" and "idea."

134a This sentence might well be translated as follows: "When therefore thought (meets) the essentially one, the latter is the form, and the former the idea." While this version seems more literal, it makes no connected sense with what follows.

135 See iv. 9.5.

136 See iii. 9.1.

137 See iii. 9.1.

138 The universal Soul.

139 Timaeus, C39.

140 See iii. 9.1.

141 See iii. 7.10.

142 See ii. 7.2.

143 To form, see i. 6.2.

144 As thought Plato, in his Republic, x.

145 As thought Plato in Gorgias, C464.

146 vi. 7.

147 vi. 7.

148 Or, "so that it may contain the intelligence which is one, as its own actualization."

149 See iv. 3.9–17.

150 In the Cratylus, C400.

151 As in the Phaedo, C62.

152 Republic, vii, C514.

153 See Jamblichus, Cave of the Nymphs, 8.

154 Procession, or rising.

155 C246.

156 Of the universe.

157 C34.

158 Timaeus, C30.

159 The Creator, who is the universal Soul.

160 See iv. 3.9–11.

161 See iv. 3.17.

162 As thought Plato in his Phaedrus, C246.

163 The First belongs to the principal power of the universal Soul, the second to its natural and plant power, see iii, 8.1 and iv. 4.13.

164 See iv. 4.13.

165 See ii. 3.18.

166 As in the Timaeus, C42.

167 iv. 8.1.

168 See iv. 2.2.

169 See iv. 3.6.7.

170 As thought Plato in his Phaedrus, C249 and Phaedo, C72.

171 That lead an alternate or double life.

172 In his Timaeus, C42, 69.

173 In the stars.

174 As does Plato, see iv. 8.1.

175 As a messenger, see iv. 3.12.13.

176 See ii. 9.2.

177 Without having given herself up to it.

178 See i. 8.7.

179 That is, of form, ii. 4.4.

180 See iv. 6.3.

181 See iii. 2.8.

182 See iv. 8.5.

183 See iv. 3.18.

184 See ii. 9.2.

185 That is, the body to which she is united.

186 As thought Plato in his Parmenides, C154.

187 See vi. 6.13.

188 "Being." It has been found impossible, in order to preserve good English idiom, to translate "ousia" by "being," and "to on" by "essence," with uniformity. Where the change has been made, the proper word has been added in parentheses, as here.

189 In his Metaphysics, iv. 2.

190 Aristotle, Met. iv. 2.

191 Evidently a pun on forms and ideas.

192 See vi. 2.7.

193 In the Timaeus not accurately quoted.

194 As Plato said in the Timaeus, 37.

195 See iv. 9.5.

196 See vi. 8.11.

197 Odyss. xix. 178.

198 See i. 2.2.

199 See iv. 3.1.

200 See ii. 2.2.

201 See the beginning of Plato's Republic, ix.

202 See i. 8.7.

203 Because they do not allow of mutual penetration.

204 See iv. 8.5.

205 As thought Numenius 29.

206 See ii. 3.

207 See i. 8.14.

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.

287 Not the absolute eternal existence, nor the totality of the constitutive qualities of a thing, as in ii. 6.

288 Met. xii. 2.

289 Met. i. 3.

290 Met. xi. 6.

291 See v. 1.9.

292 As reported by Diog. Laert. ii. 2.

293 Met. i. 4; vii. 13.

294 de Nat. Deor. i. 24.

295 Met. viii. 4.

296 In the Timaeus, C49–52, Met. vii. 3.

297 See ii. 7.3.

298 In Met. iii. 4 and de Anima i. 2.5; ii. 5.

299 In the Timaeus.

300 See i. 8.9; ii. 4.12.

301 Met. vii. 3, see iii. 6.7–19.

302 Met. viii. 4.

303 Met. i. 6.

304 Met. vii. 7.

305 See ii. 4.10.

306 See ii. 7.3.

307 Met. xii. 2.

308 Met. vi. 1; vii. 5.

309 See i. 2.1.

310 In the Philebus, 252.

311 The same definition is given of "evil" in i. 8.10–14.

312 See i. 8.8.

313 Physics. iii. 7.

314 This paragraph interrupts the argument.

315 Plato's spirit in the Timaeus, C79.

316 The inferior soul, see ii. 3.18.

317 In his Phaedrus, C246.

318 Plato, Phaedo, C. i. 242.

319 Plato, Tim. C77.

320 Plato, Rep. x. p. 291.

321 Plato, Tim. 91.

322 The text is very difficult.

323 Plato, Rep. x. p. 617–620.

324 In the Timaeus.

325 C90.

326 Phaedo, p. 107, c. i. p. 300.

327 Rep. x. 616, p. 234.

328 In i. 2.8, 16.

329 See ii. 9.18.

330 As thought Aristotle, Met. v. 14.

331 As thought Aristotle, Met. v. 30.

332 As thought Plato, Letter 7, 343.

333 As said Aristotle, Met. vii. 5.

334 Phaedros C1,217.

335 de Gen. An. 4.2.

336 Adv. Math. 5.102 p. 355.

337 Theataetus, C2,132.

338 Rep. iv. E3,434.

339 Theataetus, 176.

340 Plato, Phaedo, 69.

341 Pun on the word "logos," which means both reason and word.

342 Plato, Phaedrus, 246.

343 v. 1.1.

344 In his Phaedrus, Et. 266.

345 In v. 1.1.

346 i. 3. 4, 5, 6; i. 6.

347 In his Phaedrus, p. 248.

348 In his Politician, p. 262.

349 v. 1.

350 In his Sophist., p. 253.

351 See i. 2.3–6.

352 Morals i. 34, 35; Nicom. Eth., vi. 8, 11.

353 See iv. 1.22.

354 See iii. 8.7.

355 See iv. 2.2.

356 See iv. 3.19, 22, 23; iv. 4.28.

357 See iv. 3.20–22.

358 Cicero, de Nat. Deor. ii. 31–33.

359 See 4.7.6, 7.

360 Plutarch, de Plac. Phil. v. 21; Cicero, de Nat. Deor. ii. 11. The "predominating principle" had appeared in Plato's Timaeus, p. 41.

361 Of the Timaeus, p. 35.