[193] This etymology of "providence" applies in English as well as in Greek; see iii. 2.1.
[194] Plato, Laws, iv., p. 716; Cary, 8.
[195] Arist. Met. xii. 7.
[196] See iii. 8.9.
[197] In his Cratylos, p. 419; Cary, 76.
[198] See iii. 9, end.
[199] As said Plato in the Timaeus, p. 42; Cary, 18; see Numenius, 10, 32.
[200] In this book Plotinos uses synonymously the "Heaven," the "World," the "Universal Organism or Animal," the "All" (or universe), and the "Whole" (or Totality). This book as it were completes the former one on the Ideas and the Divinity, thus studying the three principles (Soul, Intelligence and Good) cosmologically. We thus have here another proof of the chronological order. In it Plotinos defends Plato's doctrine against Aristotle's objection in de Anima i. 3.
[201] As thought Heraclitus, Diog. Laert. ix. 8; Plato, Timaeus, p. 31; Cary, 11; Arist. Heaven, 1, 8, 9.
[202] Such as Heraclitus.