[Footnote 192: Victorinus must have got this phrase from some Greek Neoplatonist. It was explained that [Greek: to mê on] may be used in four senses, and that it is not intended to identify the two extremes. But the very remarkable passage in Hierotheus (referred to in Lecture III.) shows that the two categories of [Greek: aoristia] cannot be kept apart.]
[Footnote 193: "Ipse se ipsum circumterminavit.">[
[Footnote 194: De Trin. vii. 4. 7; de Doctr. Christ. i. 5. 5; Serm. 52. 16; De Civ. Dei, ix. 16.]
[Footnote 195: Contr. Adim. Man. 11.]
[Footnote 196: De Ord. ii. 16. 44, 18. 47.]
[Footnote 197: Enarrat. in Ps. 85. 12.]
[Footnote 198: Conf. vii. 13 ad fin.]
[Footnote 199: Compare with this sentence of the Confessions the statement of Erigena quoted below, that "the things which are not are far better than those which are.">[
[Footnote 200: Ep. 120. 20. St. Augustine wrote in early life an essay "On the Beautiful and Fit," which he unhappily took no pains to preserve.]
[Footnote 201: De Ord. ii. 16. 42, 59; Plot. Enn. i. 6. 4.]