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Headword:
*plwti=nos
Adler number: pi,1811
Translated headword: Plotinos, Plotinus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of Lykopolis,[1] [descended] from philosophers; student of the
Ammonius who had once been a sakkophoros;[2] teacher of Amelios.[3]
Porphyry learned from him,[4] and Iamblichos from him,[5] and Sopatros from him.[6] During the reign of Gallienus, when an old man, he remained until ...[7] and he compiled 54 books, which are [each] divided into nine rolls and referred to as the six
Enneads.[8] He became physically weak as the result of the sacred disease [= epilepsy]. He wrote other works also.
*plwti=nos, *lukopoli/ths, a)po\ filoso/fwn, maqhth\s me\n *)ammwni/ou tou= prw/|hn genome/nou sakkofo/rou, dida/skalos de\ *)ameli/ou: ou(= *porfu/rios dih/kouse, tou= de\ *)ia/mblixos, tou= de\ *sw/patros. e)pi\ de\ *gallihnou= ghraio\s w)\n die/meinen a)/xri ... kai\ sune/tace bibli/a nd#, a(/tina kata\ e)nne/a bi/blous dih/|rhtai kai\ le/gontai *)ennea/des e(/c. ge/gone de\ kai\ to\ sw=ma a)sqenh\s u(po\ th=s i(era=s no/sou. e)/graye kai\ a)/lla.
Notes:
205-269/70 CE; see generally John Dillon in OCD4 s.v.; Lloyd Gerson in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy at web address 1.
[1] In Egypt.
[2]
Ammonius:
alpha 1640.
[3] Amelius:
alpha 1549.
[4]
Porphyry:
pi 2098
[5]
Iamblichus:
iota 27.
[6] Sopatros,
Sopater:
sigma 845.
[7] Adler's apparatus notes two attempts to fill this lacuna: 'until 7 years [sc. has passed]' (in the Suda ed. pr.) and 'until Claudius II' (her own suggestion, prompted by
delta 237). She also expresses the view that the transmitted
die/meinen a)/xri, immediately before the lacuna, should more probably be
die/teinen a)/xri; compare e.g.
epsilon 2424.
[8] English translation online at web address 2.
Web address 1,
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Keywords: biography; chronology; geography; history; medicine; philosophy; religion
Translated by: Joseph Grabau on 2 March 2004@04:50:48.
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