VITA PLOTINi: Lib.iv.c.xm. m
absolutam pertinet rationem, in-feriora esse censenda. Proindecum dixisset, Amelium perPlq-tini quidem vestigia progredi,sed nimia quadam expositionisprolixitate in oppositum Plotinideduci, mox mei memoriamfecit, Plotini familiaritatem nu-per adepti, aitque: Communis au-tem nostri iliorumque amicus Tyriusille Bafiliut nec ipse quidem paucaad exemplar Plotini traflavit atquecomposuit. In his sane verbis revera Longinus indicat percepis-se , me diligentissime devitasseAmelianas ambages a Philoso-ho nimium alienas, atque in feri*endo Plotini formam fuissecomplexum. Satis est ergo virtantus, judicioque primus, hacte-nus in testimonium nobis addu-ctus scribens talia de Plotino.Jam vero, si tunc ad eum quandome advocavit accedere potuissem,profecto nunquam contra rescri-psisset illa, quae scribere prius estaggressus, quam doctrinam ipsamdiligenter examinasset.
Sed quid nam mihi nunc ex-pedit (ut Hesiodi more loquar)circa quercum petramque toqui\
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* ) Interpres rectius legit; 05 ei.m) Theogon, V. 35 .
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