The Enneads

George Plethon George Gemistos Plethon (c. 1355–1452) was a Neoplatonist scholar who famously encouraged the Medici family to found the Platonic Academy in Florence. [addresses] those who were associated with him in his studies with all diligence, order, and protection, as much as he is able for you; he will add to their glory. For in this way we might be mocked in the marketplace. According to the friend of Plato, the King This may refer to the Byzantine Emperor or a patron; Plethon often wrote for the ruling Palaiologos dynasty.: there was a need for a model of the works of the divine King Claudius Likely referring to the Emperor Claudius Gothicus, mentioned on the previous page, or perhaps a misattribution of a text Plethon was editing. labored upon by the one who compiled them and the persuasions. It seems to me that for the rest, there is no wandering and no lack of temperance; but diligence is placed under this man himself by everyone. Because of being through all things near you and being a god. Making notes scholia Scholia are explanatory comments or summaries written in the margins or as supplements to ancient texts. from the surviving one hundred books, becomes the notes again to someone and as if toward him, which would not be closed. Of the things [given] to you in the order of the marketplace and in the words here: what we give healthily under you to the labors. We go down to the message, and thus in one hundred years it was sealed for those [who are] saviors. For he knows nothing except the notes, which perhaps the hundred, their number, has created. Of which the whole multitude of those and from there [the works of] the Kings of Galen referring to Galen of Pergamum, the famous Greek physician whose works Plethon summarized.. Until reaching the whole of Galen himself. From which, the act of praying to the whole of him is perhaps not equal in them, of which the things concerning the gods are because of them; these then are the first of the things from the beginning of Galen. Concerning the whole void original: "κένου"; a reference to the philosophical concept of the vacuum., it is contained by us for the sake of what hypothesis, of the defense which was said first for him, by what nature each might be. It is said by Gemistos Plethon’s original name was George Gemistos; he adopted "Plethon" as a synonym for "Gemistos" (meaning "full" or "complete") because it sounded similar to "Plato." in the book. And if anyone should ask what they have received. For neither how, nor if it were such, would he be able to do anything of the 60 Possibly referring to 60 chapters or books.. I do not say everyone and from the edition into the first book concerning all things but all the divine things were not included. Of which then the only things saved are according to George himself, wherever it might be as from below all things according to God. Those who possess the things of George again will be [informed] of the things of all the books, into the epigram of each of the wealthy books. Concerning the beautiful. Of which the souls—

That nothing is the cause of evil. Concerning the inaccessible Fortune and that God is the immortal good of each. Concerning the generation from nothing—all say it comes to be. Concerning the heavenly things and Fortune. Nor is there that which is through Fortune; rather, it is first of the eternal and of the whole.
1 Of which the souls of all mortals are always impoverished. Concerning the [first].
2 Bodies according to whatever form; the cause of which is from our Lord.
3 How they make the first thing of all. Things concerning the mind and piety.
4 Through the cause or all the first things. And our [nature] of all.
5 Already a cause; because of the first thing of them being [of the].
6 The soul alone for all things. Concerning the substances hypostases In Neoplatonism, "hypostases" refers to the levels of reality, such as the One, the Intellect, and the Soul. that are still coming to be.
7 Of which the souls are all, but throughout the whole the work would not be.
8 Concerning the concept of the works of men who are acting. Or every soul [is] everything.
9 All things. Concerning wealth. By which every soul is more than the forms ideai Referring to the Platonic Forms or Ideas..
10 A response to those as many as [ask] if it is every soul. Of the lights of the mind being with [all].
11 Concerning the image of the souls in men. Why they are vital to it. Concerning—
12 The refutation of the many demons daimones In this context, "daimones" refers to intermediary spirits or divine beings in the Greek tradition, not necessarily "demons" in the modern sense.. That which is through fortune of the non-automatic things.
13 Concerning the cause of incorruptibility. Of which the soul is the cause, and having our [nature].
14 Concerning poems or every soul. Because of God for it. And of the [evil]—
15 Parents, the souls [of]. To which of each thing. Concerning those from—
16 Of which or every soul. That indeed it is divided by us. Concerning the immovable things in a certain soul.
17 What is Fate Heimarmene original: "εἱμαρμένη"; the Greek concept of destiny or the causal chain of the universe.. Or every soul. And concerning the defense and—
18 He says to place a certain madness in the middle, or every soul in the world of some.
19 Of the libations or common things concerning beings, the child is the first thing.
20 How [it is] by the cause of nature or of Gemistos. For by wealth God wanders.
21 How that of Plato. For thus by this cause to nature [he was]... others of which to himself. Such as might become of that which is beside the "and every soul"... how the happiness of nature. To be of the whole God... the libations of all happiness. Of which all...