Plotinus

[ ploh-tahy-nuh s ]

/ ploʊˈtaɪ nəs /

a.d. 205?–270?, Roman philosopher, born in Egypt.

Example sentences from the Web for plotinus

Have you a Plotinus, and would you trust him to me in that case?

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) |Frederic G. Kenyon
The civic fragment finds its highest expression in Quintilian, the super-civic in Plotinus.

Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals |Thomas Davidson
Plotinus' idea of hypostasis is also important, and this notion requires exact examination.

History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) |Adolph Harnack
Our comparison does no more than develop the content of the term λογος, as Plotinus understands it.

Creative Evolution |Henri Bergson

After the death of Virgil, he was joined with Plotinus and Tucca to revise the works of that admirable poet.

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence |Cornelius Tacitus

Plotinus

/ (plɒˈtaɪnəs) /

?205–?270 ad, Roman Neo-Platonist philosopher, born in Egypt