[171] See i. 1.12.
[172] This means created things, which are contingent and perishable; see ii. 4.5, 6.
[173] See ii. 4.10–12. This idea of irradiation is practically emanationism; and besides Plotinos's interest in orientalism (Porphyry Biography, 3), it harks back to Numenius, fr. 26.3; 27a.10.
[174] Held by Plato in his Theaetetus, p. 176; Cary, 84, 85; and Republic, ii. 279; Cary, 18, and of Numenius, fr. 16.
[175] See i. 2.1.
[176] In the Theaetetus, p. 176; Cary, 84, 85.
[177] Numenius, fr. 10; Plato, Rep. vi. p. 509b; Cary, 19.
[178] As Plato suggested in his Philebus, p. 23; Cary, 35–37.
[179] Numenius, fr. 17.
[180] Mentioned by Plato in the Timaeus, pp. 28, 30, 38; Cary, 9, 10, 14.