Commentary on Plato's Timaeus

And but also to make the encompassing element toward that life, the the books [which are] entirely private and strange in their doctrines—this is a Pythagorean doctrine; Percerning friendship, they [the Pythagoreans] indeed say those things, as they fulfilled the life of the ci- city of their own philosophy and their concord original: 'homonoia'; a state of being of one mind or soul, often used to describe political or social harmony: these things and as many as he of concerning the books [as] friends by the testimony and the ungrudging agreements he allowed to be confirmed to remain, as they do these things toward one another and the gathered one demands this place in the honor of the community community: 'koinonia', referring to the Pythagorean ideal of shared life, property, and knowledge; they will bring in those [who are] in them of such doctrines of; and the things in which writings are common to all of; this and as many books as he, first of his own, alone and and certain last ones to decline to fulfill the [role] and those being fulfilled; teaching and learning the lest it encompass the the useful things the; they say, therefore, that all the books thus create friendship for those being educated by them; whence Plato, through [philosophy] itself, in friendship indeed, having the certain middle men of the universal things—if indeed under the appearances; those who have this discourse very much in words call out to the others laid aside; and it makes no difference even if they were not hearing these things as much as possible, causes which either that concerning honor or the philosophical [element] most of all might abound; and this the shows that concerning the whole discourses in their upsurges; and therefore the virtues are said to be honors; that not the many indeed by the least, but by the; but we must be [virtuous], for these men have the; wherefore also much is brought from them toward the discourses; if it is clear that we are profitable for the discourses and you will recognize me, if indeed you do not share; for it is not likely that these things are shared; by nature and through those very things which always belong to all of nature it has happened has to be productive; and according to every accident accident: 'symbebekos'; in philosophy, a property that is not essential to a thing's nature but happens to belong to it the thing happening most of all of nature; if indeed we participate in the eternal of this, as toward all to whom we are images original: 'eidola'; likenesses or reflections of higher realities, suggesting that human life reflects divine order after the things that always are.