The Commentaries on the Timaeus of Plato — trans. Thomas Taylor

All soi.Is therefore have wings: lor a.J ot them line all |o»irs, and this is a|s„ tin- u-e with the 1 1 ,.matter and the horses, lh'i hi ilunir souls imleeil, the wiligs ale always illiincuiliht ri if; and lit me flies are sud to he mi.rJ, hut not iti 6 aut id hnriiju. (>u the loiitrarv, in our souls who hare human, the w mgs are not always expanded, hut an Sometimes llo-t.l and sluggish. lot we | >s-ess tht: power of Hit in (since we never 1 .se our puv-er-j; hit we liave not always tlie energy of them. Him clous tin term tub uisged Is more adapted, in cull tipicute ol p< ssc-saig the p .wt r, h it not t utin ly the ctu r^v ot "mg'. Hut to tl.i t> d-, the term uingij is ai.' ipti . 1 , as havii g in elLcjcy, Loth powt rs and eiu-rgn s Henceafterward-, he says of our sot 1 , f/mt i Wy n b • •"fttJ Mi-hiiij* thereloie to a-si it tint ni.uh is

Col1 11 noII hotfi to diviuv souls and oui , he live, the word tub uitiL-eJ 1 .r all souls have an im ic powt r, tin u r h some have it always, hut oil i is >.,inrtimis only in energy. Or it may he said that li e turn tut uingtj is pr. peily as-rrted. both of divine Souls, and onis. Ol d um tools mdeeil, Imjusc m thrill, the h mgs ate al.oilt their lowest p, w. rs, and win h air l e irc-l to tl.e i nth tin a rm rg,u . i i mg lilwilsisUhlishi.ini ml III,ill.a Dili tin wl.olr ol U e ti tin in' i. i i, id, i• inl ipii .1 |.i our «oul», hi i msn d" I, mg,./ |» Out pi p, I |y trill, W In II ,.| pill 1 In flu ill, ctu pi .it i rrtaiil I mrv

I ,1 1 lutit i/n i./i | ys *i/ry If.t-) th{ uilintUj irlipi/f J, util tht mlttuiul.

As l*im lus hy div inely inspired poetry, signifies tl at which 1 'ljlu in the I’hadrus tails the progeny ol J...elir mania, and as the enthusiastic t-ii -rj y is fretpieiilly liirnticiied in li.r«e • omuit ntaru s, tl, follow¬ ing account of enthusiasm, and the difh rent kinds of mama ineullomd I v Philo in liie l'h.i Iru?, i. aitdi d hr the salt ol the Platonic I n” 1,-li reader, trim the .'St hull s cl llriim is i ll that I) ilt .aie.

*• ''line Plato here ill hvcis four kinds of in mia, tv which I mi an enthusiasm, ami pu-si sum or m-p:ratluii from the (mils, ti/ the iiiu»u il, the lilistu, ti.c p lo - yhttic, and the amatory, pnvnnis to the ills! iissnui of each, we mu t lirst p< ak ..hout 11111111-14-111, and show to what | ari of the soul the enthu-i.islii energy pertains; w hither rath | eif of 11 | ussesscs this tuer»\ ;

11 oi euttill-ids 111 is from the (sods, ahd in what pirt o! the .soul 11 is iiigeneratcd : or whether it subsists ill something el t nn.re excellent than Soul White then, does that which i-properly and primarily Called enthusiasm subs.-t, aul what is it? Of the rational soul, there are tv o pirt-, one ol whuli is Jumui t, hut the other opinion. Again however, ol thauoia, one part is said to be liie lowe-l, and is properly dianu.a, Lut another part of it is ike highest, which is .-aid to ba¬

Of the rational soul, there are tv o pirt-, one ol whuli is Jumui t, hut the other opinion. Again however, ol thauoia, one part is said to be liie lowe-l, and is properly dianu.a, Lut another part of it is ike highest, which is .-aid to ba¬ the intellect of it. according to which tha aoul especial¬ ly becoinrs inieih-clual, and which Some call intellect incapuiiy. Ihrielsal-o anointr thing aimer thia w hie h is the -iiiniint of the whole soul, niitl most allied to tlt( one. w i.li likewise wishes well to all thing-,and always gives Itself up to the Cod-, and is readily di-pu-ed !>> do whatever they please. This l-.o, is sanl to he- the one ol the soul, bears the iuw-e I I the super e-scntial one, a .1 unit. - toe wh- le - ol 7|. Uol ll.at these things necessarily tint- -uhsi-t, we may ii aru as t dl ws. i lie rational sold rh lives Ms « xiste m e Ir in ail the eau-es 4 >nor to itsi it, 1 1 tnuii mlrlh 1 1 and 1 lie Cmls. Hut it -ul si-is ,d-o I „ui itselflurnptrle.ts itself, ho far therefore, as it -uhsi-is Iruiu the fm’s, it posse-si s the one, which unites all its | wer , .in I a I 1 lie iiiiilutuile ol iis t ll, and iunjoins llie 111 to the one 1 Uelj, and is tin first lecipn iil ol the goods iiiipaiti d hy toe Hod-. It liki-sivi makes all tl.i ts-elie’e ol liie -onl to be bolillniui, ac . ordlllg to wl.nh It IS Connected with the (.oil-, and united to •belli. Hit so far as it imb-i-t- Iroin intellect, it possesses an uiielk ctual iiatun , a. t old ug to winch It :i| prehrnds t no-, hy -miplc pr> jer l|..;i-, or intuiti ms, mid Hut ih-euisivi lv . and s 1 nit) mid to the inti i Ire c w tin Ii is ahov e il ill. And s 11 fir as it confcUtutis 11 si If, it puisc-scx the ill iiiov'tir | uwi r, seeord- Uig to winch it gem tales stirnc-s, and Cirlain theortius, cnergui s discur-ivt ly, ami colleits conclusions Iruiu pmpos,Huns. 1 or t ,al it ton-1,lutes or Rives billsislrme In Itxell, 1- evi lel.t from Us 1111 ) arling per¬ il 1 Hull to lt-cll; »iiu 11 h.it whu I. tads list ft In perfi 1 tun. md imp iris to list Ii wi 11 -1 mg, will mm h iiiuic 1111 ) lit to Itself ivislemi 1 nf lvII la inpis a greater •king ill-ill lieiiig, Jf tin n i,,|e, tin culll un, arts that w it 1 is gii iiri to ii-ei|, it will mu Ii im.ir impart Ilia’ which is le-s Unite ll-.il which is primarily,

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• Inn I an Iidmg to tins one of the soul, which is above dianoia, and above thr inti lien of liie soul: w iih 01 e 1- at another lime in a relaxed and dormant state, lhi- one likcwi-c, becoming illuminated [l.y ti.e Cml-,) all thr l ie ot the soul is illuminated, and Pl-O mu III i t, d an 1.1, and the irrational part, and the ri semblance ,,| roll,us asm is transmitted, as tar as to tlie- hud , list if

" Uliier enthusiasm* tin refurr, arc proiltu rd shunt other par Is of liie soul, 1 certain il.i-ino'io ext it in-' them * or tl r Cods also, lit -ugh rot without the intervention ol it. 1 Hu 11s. Por di.uioia 1 * Said to energi/c entlnisia-iu.,llv, when it dun overs science* and theorem* in a very slmrl space of lime, and in a grr.iter degree than other men. Opinion likewise and the phantasy are ‘.ml thus to energize, when thev discover art-, and actoiiip ish sdniiiable works, >ucli tor instance as i .11 lias elit e led 111 the loruiat on of statues, and another in another art, as also Homer says 1 of hint who III ilk the belt ol Hercules, • that lie neither did l or would art t.eialiy produce such another.' Angtr likewise, is sai l to energize enthusiastically, when m battle if energizes supc/n lturally.

Like .Mars, when brandishing Ins spear, he rag’d ♦ is not

Hv all 1:1.11 countable mistake here rov amuarot is inserted instead of nn fbut the mistake Olieeil by ti e (»tini 111 1 hlor ol these Scholia.

And inrun-, pn me ol this tnislake, for nvr« ut tint place, we must read av.a.

• lldy-k. \l. v. tifj.

4 ] liaJ. \ \ \ . CD.

ADDITIONAL NOTES.

p. 471

But if some one yielding to desire, should rat or that winch reason forbid*. and through this should unexprcledlv I on me well, you may *sy that desire al*o in this instance, eucrgiz-d enthti*i.isiic:illy. though obscurely ; so lint cntluiM.isrn is likewise produced about itic i*tI or puis oi the «<*ol l.nthii'-iasin himever, ]»r* peril so r tiled. Is when this one of the soul ssdi.ch is th*\t nil*'II*ct, is rented to the (rods, and is from thrnn inspired lint at d lb rent times, it is possr-sid ilu nt the apuindrs c*( il*elf, by different Gods; and is no re or less possessed, wlim intellect or eh.inoi.v is that whir h is moved. As theref re, when wc nii|uirc what philosophy is we do not always accural. Is define it, hot fre juent v, fr-ini an mipro| er use of the word, rail niatbrinitir*, I. r p|.\*ir*, plulofophy. and science; we do the like also with respect to enthusiasm For tin ugh it „‘.iou!d he the phantasy which is rented, we are a* costumed to call tin recita¬ tion enthusiasm Moreover, those who ascribe en¬ thusiasm IO the tempe ratures of hoili**, or the cxtcllent trmp* r inu iit et the a>r, or the ascendency of exhalations, * r the aptitudes oi times and place*, or the agency of the boellt s that revolve in the heavens, speak rather ol the ro-operatmg and material causes of tlsc thill", than «»l the causes of it j ropcrlv so rilled,

^ on have therrlore, for the producing cause of rtithnk asm, the Grids; for the material cause, the cnthimastically-ciiergizu g soul ttsc It, or the external svmb'.l* ; for the form il cause, tl r ins| iration of the Guifs about the eoe of tlie stuil, and lor the final cause, good.