[425] Zeller, op. cit., pp. 451 ff.
[426] Porph., Vita, cap. xx.
[427] A single example will make our meaning clear. Plotinus is trying to prove that there can be no Form without Matter. He first argues that if the notes of a concept can be separated from one another, this proves the presence of Matter, since divisibility is an affection belonging only to it. He then goes on to say, εἰ δὲ πολλὰ ὂν ἀμέριστόν ἐστι, τὰ πολλὰ ἐν ἑνὶ ὂντα ἐν ὕλῃ ἐστὶ τῷ ἑνὶ αὐτὰ μορφαὶ αῦτου ὂντα. (Enn., II., iv., 4; Kirchhoff, I., p. 113, I. 7.) The meaning is, that if the notes are inseparable, the unity in which they inhere is related to them as Matter to Form.
[428] See the index to Kirchhoff’s edition.
[429] For references see Kirchner, Die Philosophie des Plotin, p. 185; Steinhart, Meletemata Plotiniana, pp. 9-23; Zeller, Ph. d. Gr., III., b, pp. 430 f.
[430] Steinhart, op. cit., pp. 30 ff.; Kirchner, op. cit., pp. 186 ff.
[431] Porph., Vita, cap. xv.
[432] Enn., I., vi.
[433] Meno, 86, A. Compare Vol. I., p. 212.
[434] Theaetêtus, 176, A. Phaedo, 67, B ff.