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PORPHYRY;

CONTAINING

HIS FOUR BOOKS ON

ABSTINENCE FROM ANIMAL FOOD;

HIS TREATISE ON

THE HOMERIC CAVE OF THE NYMPHS;

AND HIS

AUXILIARIES

TO THE

PERCEPTION OF INTELLIGIBLE NATURES.

original: "Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures" refers to Porphyry's Sententiae, a series of concise philosophical propositions meant to guide the reader toward understanding spiritual and intellectual realities.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK

THOMAS TAYLOR.

Thomas Taylor (1758–1835) was an influential English translator known as "Taylor the Platonist," who dedicated his life to making the works of Plato and the Neoplatonists accessible in English.

WITH

AN APPENDIX,

EXPLAINING THE ALLEGORY OF THE WANDERINGS OF ULYSSES.

BY THE TRANSLATOR.

"And this is the life of gods, and of divine and happy men; a liberation from all other things here below, a life without pleasure in worldly things, a flight of the alone to the alone." original Greek: Και ουτω θεων και ανθρωπων θειων και ευδαιμονων βιος, απαλλαγη των αλλων των τηδε, ανηδονος των τηδε, φυγη μονου προς μονον. This is the famous closing sentence of the Enneads (VI.9.11) by Plotinus, the teacher of Porphyry.—PLOTINUS Works p. 771.

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