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[Column 1]

The treasury in the Epinomis original: "epinomide" — a dialogue often associated with Plato’s Laws concerning the highest wisdom. 1516
Testimonies regarding the divinity of Plotinus 1545
That an altar was dedicated to Plato by Aristotle 770
Plato everywhere preserves the decorum of his characters 1153; that he died at a banquet 1520
The Platonic style abounds chiefly in three things 1129; his style is as poetic as it is philosophical 1129
Platonists attacking the Christian religion 16; whose mysteries they have usurped for themselves 25; their games are much more serious than the serious business of the Stoics 1129
The argument of the Platonists from the objects of the mind 248; the crowd of interpreters 385; praise of the interpreters 617; who is the greatest among them 921
Plotinus wished to build and restore Platonopolis A proposed utopian city in Italy based on the laws of Plato’s Republic. 1542 & what stood in the way of this attempt (ibid.)
The pleumon pleumon animal Likely referring to the 'lung-fish' or a primitive jellyfish mentioned in ancient biology. 1243
Pliny's complaint to Trajan, the persecutor of Christians 74
Plotinus is depicted unwillingly 1538; he suffers from a colic disease 1538; he sets out for Persia with the army of Gordian 1539; he wrote a book against the heretics 1543; alien to sophistries 1543; called "the Intellect" by the philosophers of his age 1548; his miracles 286; his books 871; his education and training 1538; his death 1538; his age 1538; his corrupted books 1544; his erudition in mathematics 1542, 1543; his listeners 1540; the order and arrangement of his books 1546 & 1539; his life 1546; his opinion on the nature of the planets 1609
From where it originates for poets 614 & 934
That poetry is from the Muses 1282
Insane poets 287; those seized by divine frenzy 287; the duty of the poet 744
That the poets have sinned in three ways concerning God 1516
Polemon the Academic A Platonist philosopher and head of the Academy. 286
Polycarp is urged to deny Christ 71
The Persian apple The peach tree. 514

[Column 2]

Pontius Pilate becomes judge and procurator 34
The death of Pontius Pilate 16
People living on scent Referring to mythical races said to survive only on the smell of fruit or flowers. 544; Lunar people 564
Porphyry's opinion concerning Christ 15; his complaint about the extinct gods 24
What Porus and Penia are Plenty and Poverty, the parents of Love in Plato's Symposium. 1344
Possession of goods is alien to the Apostles 7
Patience is the best remedy in evils 788
Power 350 & 437; infinite power in God 96; God’s power is spread through individual things 103; it is absent from the soul 146; the difference between power and act 1655; what sensitive power is 1739
Our highest powers 307; pertaining to divine powers 1109; [divine] assemblies 1510
That power does not reign without wisdom 848; to know that power is to create another 1210; that without wisdom it is nothing when referred to act 1656
The Categories prædicamenta denied 1179
That four categories should not be placed under one genus 1773
The preaching by which the people were converted 14
Five modes of preaching 1029
The chief precepts of Moses 69; the more minute precepts of Moses 69; regarding memory 656
The distinction of the precepts of Moses 69
What the prophetic faculty requires 293
Presages/Omens 1890
What kind of prince is to be venerated 721; the duty of the prince 744
The institution of philosophy 830; its legitimate praises 912
From where princes were led to perfection 16; the persecutors of Christians paid the penalty 16; princes over the world 130; that they pass laws for their own utility 1397
The principle is unity 96; that the universe is the principle 1015; that the being of the universe itself is simply one 1165
The infinity of principles 136; principles of natural things 1637
The love of the rational principle is goodness 96; its reason is truth 96
The Platonists posit three principles 105 & 1668; that there are not [only] two 1210

[Column 3]

How privation is spoken of 1654
The duty of a private citizen 744
The process/procession 1658
Preface to the Institutions of Plato 929; to Theophrastus on the Soul 896; to Iamblichus 897; to Proclus and Porphyry 898
Depth in God 1114
That good offspring are born from two good parents and vice versa 1411
A divine promise made concerning Christ 456; the promise to Abraham 466
That it is just to keep promises 652
Who the profane are 1016
Wisdom is not granted to the profane 787
The Hebrew prophets and the Essenes devoted themselves to wisdom and the priesthood simultaneously 1; and regarding the interpreters of the prophets 873
Testimonies of the prophets concerning Christ, from 30 up to 45
Nearer 1963
Virtue is proper to God 1165
There are three properties of God, folio 57
Why prosperity is fleeting 723; human prosperity 721
We use prosperity more perversely than adversity 800
Proteus is taken for essence Metaphor for the primary matter that takes all forms. 244
A proverb of the Christians 16; the origin of the Rhodian proverb 1228
Proverbs 1228
Providence 288 & 1963; guardian of the human race 114; God’s providence 817; why it permits adversity 961; that all things are ruled by a certain providence 1621; it rules individual things according to the measure of each 1088; threefold providence 1387; providence of gods and demons 878; the three duties of divine providence 1088; that the stars serve chiefly for three things 1628
Diverse modes of providence 1666
Providence does not desert its own in necessary things 1636
Provocation to writing 625
Prudence 1215 & 1301
That no prudent person spurns anyone as useless 719

[Column 4]

Ptolemy ransomed the Indians serving in Egypt, folio 55
Ptolemy, being wounded, is healed 293
The right governance of public affairs 827
Shame/Modesty 1963; innate modesty is the foundation of temperance 1299
What beauty is 1212; threefold beauty 1322; to what extent it relates to pleasure 1574; when formal beauty arises 1574; what it is in bodies 1575; in what the beauty of a body composed of form consists 1576
The impression of the form of beauty 1270; the fountain of beauty 1353; what kind of reason beauty has 1382; the property of beauty 1574; its true form 1574; divisions and subdivisions of beauty 1576
That beauty is a ray penetrating through all things 1326; that some beauty is incorporeal 1334; that it is the splendor of the divine countenance 1336; it pertains more to sight than to hearing 1574
That only the eye enjoys beauty 1828
Comparison of the beauties of God, the angel, the soul, and the body 1353
The beautiful 1964
Those whose souls are beautiful are beautiful 1272
Pertaining to the beautiful 1061
Things beautiful on the outside are naturally good within 1672
What most beautiful thing we should pray to approve 1576
The function of the lung 1479
That the lung both flees moisture and inhales air to cool the heart 1477
The pulsing of the body is not hidden from the soul 221
Purgation/Purification 1964; the end of purification 1557; the purgatory of souls 1968
Pythagoras born of a Jewish father original: "patre Iudæo natus" — a claim sometimes found in Renaissance syncretic histories. 10
Where Pythagoras and Plato learned philosophy 1874
Pythagoras was hidden for ten years 286
Symbols of Pythagoras 1979; his golden words 1979
Plato chose the Pythagorean sect

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