Notes on Plotinus, Enn. I–III

Enn. I. vi. 1. (p. 87, 1. 6) 9 π⋯ν μ⋯ν γ⋯ρ ἄμορφον, πeφυκ⋯ς μορφ⋯ν κα⋯ eἶδος δ⋯χeσθαι ἄμοιρν ⋯ν λ⋯γον κα⋯ eἴδους eἴδονς αἰσχρ⋯ν κα⋯ ἒξω θe⋯ου λ⋯γον. It is strange that no one seems to have questioned ἒξω θe⋯ου λ⋯γον which, after ἄμοιρν ⋯ν λ⋯γον is merely tautologous: and what point is there here in ‘ divine reason’? Since, in these chapters on ‘beauty’, Plotinus has the Phaedrus much in mind, it is natural to suppose that what he wrote was ἒξω θe⋯ου λ⋯γον borrowed from Phaedr . 247 A.