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I. PLOTINO, COMO PORFÍRIO, DESPREZAVA SUA NATUREZA FÍSICA, MAS UMA IMAGEM DELE FOI PRESERVADA.
O filósofo Plotino, que viveu recentemente, parecia envergonhado de ter um corpo. Consequentemente, ele nunca falava sobre sua família ou sua casa (Lycopolis, hoje Syout, na Tebaida, no Egito). Ele nunca permitiu que ninguém o imortalizasse em um retrato ou estátua. Um dia, quando Amelius lhe pediu que permitisse que uma pintura fosse feita dele, ele disse: “Não é suficiente para mim ter que carreg…text/html2026-04-03T01:05:47+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)II
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II. SICKNESS AND DEATH OF PLOTINOS; HIS BIRTH DAY UNKNOWN.
Plotinos was subject to chronic digestive disorders; nevertheless, he never was willing to take any remedies, on the plea that it was unworthy of a man of his age to relieve himself by such means. Neither did he ever take any of the then populartext/html2026-04-03T01:05:47+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)III
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III. PLOTINOS'S EARLY EDUCATION.
This is as much as we learned about him during various interviews with him. At eight years of age he was already under instruction by a grammarian, though the habit of uncovering his nurse s breast to suck her milk, with avidity, still clung to him. One day, however, she so complained of his importunity that he became ashamed of himself, and ceased doing so. At 28 years of age he devoted himself entirely to philosophy. He was introduced to the teachers who a…text/html2026-04-03T01:05:47+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)IV
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IV. HOW PORPHYRY CAME TO PLOTINOS. FOR THE FIRST TIME, IN 253.
In the tenth year of the reign of Gallienus, I (then being twenty years of age), left Greece and went to Rome with Antonius of Rhodes. I found there Amelius, who had been following the courses of Plotinos for eighteen years. He had not yet dared to write any thing, except a few books of notes, of which there were not yet as many as a hundred. In this tenth year of the reign of Gallienus, Plotinos was fifty-nine years old. When …text/html2026-04-03T01:05:47+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)V
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V. HOW PORPHYRY CAME TO PLOTINOS FOR THE SECOND TIME (A. D. 263-269).
I remained with him this year, and the five follow ing ones. I had already visited Rome ten years pre viously; but at that time Plotinos spent his summers in vacation, and contented himself with instructing his visitors orally.text/html2026-04-03T01:05:47+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)VI
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VI. PLOTINOS S BOOKS OF THE THIRD PERIOD (THE EUSTOCHIAN PERIOD).
While I was in Sicily, where I went in the fifteenth year of the reign of Gallienus, he wrote five new books that he sent me:
46. Of Happiness. i. 4.
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VII. VARIOUS DISCIPLES OF PLOTINOS.
Plotinos had a great number of auditors and dis ciples, who were attracted to his courses by love of philosophy.
Among this number was Amelius of Etruria, whose true name was Gentilianus. He did indeed insist that in his name the lettertext/html2026-04-03T01:05:47+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)VIII
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VIII. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PLOTINOS.
Once Plotinos had written something, he could neither retouch, nor even re-read what he had done, because his weak eyesight made any reading very painful. His penmanship was poor. He did not sepa“text/html2026-04-03T01:05:47+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)IX
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IX. PLOTINOS AS GUARDIAN AND ARBITRATOR.
There were women who were very much attached to him. There was his boarding house keeper Gemina, and her daughter, also called Gemina; there was also Amphiclea, wife of Aristo, son of Jamblichus, all three of whom were very fond of philosophy. Several men and women of substance, being on the point of death, entrusted him with their boys and girls, and all their possessions, as being an irreproachable trustee; and the result was that his house was fi…text/html2026-04-03T01:05:47+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)X
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X. HOW PLOTINOS TREATED HIS ADVERSARY, OLYMPIUS.
Among those who pretended to be philosophers, there was a certain man named Olympius. He lived in Alexandria, and for some time had been a disciple of Ammonius. As he desired to succeed better than Plotinos, he treated Plotinos with scorn, and developed sufficient personal animosity against Plotinos to try to bewitch him by magical operations. However, Olym pius noticed that this enterprise was really turning against himself, and he acknowledg…text/html2026-04-03T01:05:47+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)XI
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XI PLOTINOS AS DETECTIVE AND AS PROPHET; PORPHYRY SAVED FROM SUICIDE.
So perfectly did he understand the character of men, and their methods of thought, that he could discover stolen objects, and foresaw what those who resided with him should some day become. A magnificent necklace had been stolen from Chione, an estimable widow, who resided with him and the children (as matron ? ) . All the slaves were summoned, and Plotinos examined them all. Then, pointing out one of them, he said,text/html2026-04-03T01:05:46+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)XII
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XII. THE PROJECT OF A PLATONOPOLIS COMES TO NAUGHT.
The emperor Gallienus and the empress Salonina, his wife, held Plotinos in high regard. Counting on their good will, he besought them to have a ruined town in Campania rebuilt, to give it with all its territory to him, that its inhabitants might be ruled by the laws of Plato. Plotinos intended to have it named Platono- polis, and to go and reside there with his disciples. This request would easily have been granted but that some of the e…text/html2026-04-03T01:05:46+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)XIII
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XIII. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PLOTINOS S DELIVERY.
In his lectures his delivery was very good; he knew how to make immediate apposite replies. Nevertheless, his language was not correct. For instance, he used to say “anamnemisketai” fortext/html2026-04-03T01:05:47+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)XIV
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XIV. PHILOSOPHICAL RELATIONS OF PLOTINOS.
The style of Plotinos is vigorous and substantial, containing more thoughts than words, and is often full of enthusiasm and emotion. He follows his own in spirations rather than ideas transmitted by tradition. The teachings of the Stoics and Peripatetics are secretly mingled among his works; the whole oftext/html2026-04-03T01:05:47+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)XV
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XV. PORPHYRY EARNED RECOGNITION AT THE SCHOOL OF PLOTINOS.
At a celebration of Plato s birthday I was reading a poem about the “Mystic Marriage” (of the Soul) when somebody doubted my sanity, because it con tained both enthusiasm and mysticism. Plotinos spoke up, and said to me, loud enough to be heard by every body,text/html2026-04-03T01:05:47+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)XVI
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XVI. PLOTINOS S POLEMIC AGAINST THE GNOSTICS.
At that time there were many Christians, among whom were prominent sectarians who had given up the ancient philosophy (of Plato and Pythagoras), such as Adelphius and Aquilinus. They esteemed and possessed the greater part of the works of Alexander of Lybia, of Philocomus, of Demostrates and of Lydus. They advertised the Revelations of Zoroaster, of Zostrian, of Nicotheus, of Allogenes, of Mesus, and of several others. These sectarians deceive…text/html2026-04-03T01:05:47+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)XVII
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XVII. START OF THE AMELIO-PORPHYRIAN CON TROVERSY, OVER NUMENIUS.
The Greeks insisted that Plotinos had appropriated the teachings of Numenius. Trypho, who was both a Stoic and a Platonist, insisted on this to Amelius, who wrote a book that we have entitled,text/html2026-04-03T01:05:47+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)XVIII
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XVIII. POLEMIC BETWEEN AMELIUS AND POR PHYRY; AMELIUS TEACHES PORPHYRY.
I have quoted this letter in full to show that, even in the times of Plotinos himself, it was claimed that Plotinos had borrowed and advertised as his own teach ings of Numenius; also that he was called a trifler, and in short that he was scorned which happened chiefly because he was not understood. Plotinos was far from the display and vanity of the Sophists. When lectur ing, he seemed to be holding a conversation …text/html2026-04-03T01:05:47+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)XIX
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XIX. HOW THE WORKS OF PLOTINOS WERE PUT INTO SHAPE.
You may judge of the high opinion of Plotinos held by Longinus, from a part of a letter he addressed to me. I was in Sicily; he wished me to visit him in Phoenicia, and desired me to bring him a copy of the works of that philosopher. This is what he wrote to me about the matter:text/html2026-04-03T01:05:47+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)XX
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XX. OPINION OF LONGINUS, THE GREAT CRITIC, ABOUT PLOTINOS.
I have made this rather long quotation only to show what was thought of Plotinos by the greatest critic of our days, the man who had examined all the works of his time. At first Longinus had scorned Plotinos, be cause he had relied on the reports of people ignorant (of philosophy). Moreover, Longinus supposed that the copy of the works of Plotinos he had received from Amelius was defective, because he was not yet accus tomed to the…text/html2026-04-03T01:05:47+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)XXI
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XXI. RESULTS OF LONGINUS S CRITICISM AND VINDICATION OF PLOTINOS'S ORIGINALITY.
From the above it will be seen that Plotinos and Amelius are superior to all their contemporaries by the great number of questions they consider, and by the originality of their system; that Plotinos had not ap propriated the opinions of Numenius, and that he did not even follow them; that he had really profited by the opinions of the Pythagoreans (and of Plato) ; further, that he was more precise than Numeniu…text/html2026-04-03T01:05:47+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)XXII
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XXII. THE APOLLONIAN ORACLE ABOUT PLOTINOS.
(But when I have a long oracle of Apollo to quote, why should I delay over a letter of Longinus s, or, in the words of the proverb, quoted in Iliad xxii. 126 and Hesiod Theogony 35), “Why should I dally near the oak-trees, or the rock?text/html2026-04-03T01:05:46+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)XXIII
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XXIII. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PLOTINOS; THE ECSTATIC TRANCES.
This oracle (pieced out of numerous quotations) says (in some now lost lines, perhaps) that Plotinos was kindly, affable, indulgent, gentle, such as, indeed we knew him in personal intercourse. It also mentions that this philosopher slept little, that his soul was pure, ever aspiring to the divinity that he loved whole heartedly, and that he did his utmost to liberate himself (from terrestrial domination)text/html2026-04-03T01:05:47+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)XXIV
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XXIV. CONTENTS OF THE VARIOUS ENNEADS.
This is what I have to relate of the life of Plotinos, He had, however, asked me to arrange and revise his works. I promised both him and his friends to work on them. I did not judge it wjse to arrange them in confusion chronologically. So I imitated Apollodorus of Athens, and Andronicus the Peripatetician, the former collecting in ten volumes the comedies of Epicharmus, and the latter dividing into treatises the works oftext/html2026-04-03T00:59:34+00:00Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com)Vida de Plotino
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