Select Works of Plotinus — trans. Thomas Taylor
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SELECT WORKS
OF
PLOTINUS,
THE GREAT RESTORER OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF PLATO :
AND EXTRACTS FROM THE
TREATISE OF SYNESIUS
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TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION CONTAINING
THE SUBSTANCE OF PORPHYRY’S LIFE OF PLOTINUS.
BY THOMAS TAYLOR.
A ρχα καί αίτια και κανών ςντι ras ανθρώπινα? ευζαιμοσυνα? α των Θειων και τιμιωτατων επηνωσιε, THEAGES PyTHAG.
i. e. “ The knowledge of things divine and most honourable, is the principle, cause, and rule of human felicity.”
He who has not even a knowledge of common things is a brute among men. He who has an accurate knowledge of human concerns alone, is a man among brutes. But he who knows all that can be known by intel¬ lectual energy, is a God among men.
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BY THE TRANSLATOR,
THOMAS TAYLOR.
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The following is a List of Translations and
Original Works
BY T. TAYLOR.
Cranslations.
FROM THE GREEK.
The Hymns of Orpheus, 12mo, 2s. 6d.
Plotinus on the Beautiful, l2mo. Is. 6d.
Proclus on Euclid, and his Elements of Theology, in which |he principal dogmas of a Theology coeval with the Universe are unfolded. 2 vols. 4to. 1/. 10s.
Four Dialogues of Plato, viz. the Cratylus, Phaedo, Parme¬ nides, and Timseus. 8vo. *Js. 6d.
The Phaedrus of Plato. 4to. 6s.
Sallust on the Gods and the World. 8vo. 3s.
Two Orations of the Emperor Julian, one to the Sovereign
Sun, and the other to the Mother of the Gods. 8vo. 3s.
Five Books of Plotinus, viz. on Felicity ; on the Nature and Origin of Evil; on Providence; on Nature, Contempla¬ tion, and the One ; and on the Descent of the Soul. 8vo.