[278] Met. vii. 3.
[279] Met. v. 8.
[280] Diog. Laertes vii. 61.
[281] See Cicero, de Nat. Deor. i. 15.
[282] Met. viii. 1.
[283] See vi. 7.
[284] See i. 8.4.
[285] See i. 8.15.
[286] Plotinos's six categories are identity, difference, being, life, motion and rest. See v. 1; v. 2; vi. 2.
[287] Not the absolute eternal existence, nor the totality of the constitutive qualities of a thing, as in ii. 6.