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[1321] Cap. 16.

[1322] Edited by Kroll, _De oraculis Chaldaicis_, in _Breslau Philolog. Abhandl._, VII (1894), 1-76. Cory, _Ancient Fragments_, London, 1832.

[1323] L. A. Gray in A. V. W. Jackson, _Zoroaster_, 1901, pp. 259-60.

[1324] G. Wolff, _Porphyrii de philosophia ex oraculis hauriendis_, Berlin, 1886. Pitra, _Analecta Sacra_, V, 2, pp. 192-95, Πρόκλου ἐκ τῆς Χαλδαικῆς φιλοσοφίας. Many quotations of oracles from Porphyry’s _De philosophia ex oraculis hausta_ are made by Eusebius, _Praeparatio evangelica_, in PG, XXI.

[1325] Bouché-Leclercq, _L’Astrologie grecque_, p. 599.

[1326] Paul Allard, _La transformation du Paganisme romain au IVe siècle_, pp. 113-33, in _Compte Rendu du Congrès Scientifique International des Catholiques. Deuxième Section, Sciences religieuses_. Paris, 1891.

[1327] _Plotini opera omnia, Porphyrii liber de vita Plotini, cum Marsilii Ficini commentariis_ ... ed D. Wyttenbach, G. H. Moser, and F. Creuzer, Oxford, 1835, 3 vols. Page references in my citations are to this edition, but I have also employed: _Plotini Enneades_, ed. R. Volkmann, Leipzig, 1883; _Select Works of Plotinus translated from the Greek with an Introduction containing the substance of Porphyry’s Life of Plotinus_, by Thomas Taylor, new edition with preface and bibliography by G. R. S. Mead, London, 1909; K. S. Guthrie, _The Philosophy of Plotinus_, Philadelphia, 1896, and _Plotinos, Complete Works_, 4 vols., 1918, English Translation. Where my citations give the number of the chapter in addition to the _Ennead_ and Book, these agree with Volkmann’s text and Guthrie’s translation,—which, however, are not quite identical in this respect. A noteworthy recent publication is W. R. Inge, _The Philosophy of Plotinus_, 1918, 2 vols.

[1328] H. F. Müller, _Plotinische Studien II_, in _Hermes_, XLIX, 70-89, argues that the philosophy of Plotinus was genuinely Hellenic and free from oriental influence, that all theurgy was hateful to him, and that he opposed Gnosticism and astrology. Müller seems to me to overstate his case and to be too ready to exculpate Plotinus, or perhaps rather Hellenism, from concurrence in the superstition of the time.

[1329] For Gnosticism see