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Plotinus, Enneads 4.4 (DIORISIS sentence 3042)

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Ποικιλώτατον γὰρ τὸ πᾶν καὶ λόγοι πάντες ἐν αὐτῶι καὶ δυνάμεις ἄπειροι καὶ ποικίλαι οἷον δέ φασι καὶ ἐπʼ ἀνθρώπου ἄλλην μὲν δύναμιν ἔχειν ὀφθαλμὸν καὶ ὀστοῦν τόδε, τοδὶ δʼ ἄλλην, χειρὸς μὲν τοδὶ καὶ δακτύλου τοῦ ποδός, καὶ οὐδὲν μέρος εἶναι ὃ μὴ ἔχει καὶ οὐ τὴν αὐτὴν δὲ ἔχει ἀγνοοῦμεν δὲ ἡμεῖς, εἰ μή τις τὰ τοιαῦτα μεμάθηκεν οὕτω καὶ πολὺ μᾶλλον μᾶλλον δὲ ἴχνος ταῦτα ἐκείνων ἐν τῶι παντὶ ἀδιήγητον δὲ καὶ θαυμαστὴν ποικιλίαν εἶναι δυνάμεων, καὶ δὴ καὶ ἐν τοῖς κατʼ οὐρανὸν φερομένοις.

Provenance

  • Stable ID plotinus:enneads:4.4:s3042
  • Source Plotinus Enneads lemmatised primary text — DIORISIS edition (Vatri & McGillivray, Alan Turing Institute), Bibliotheca Augustana base text · cc-by-sa-3.0-us
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