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Select works of Porphyry

Select works of Porphyry

by Porphyry

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Author
Porphyry, 234?-305?
Title
Select works of 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. With an appendix, explaining the allegory of the wandering of Ulysses
Original Publication
London: Thomas Rodd, 1823.
Credits
The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Subject
Neoplatonism -- Early works to 1800
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 77014
Release Date
October 8, 2025
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.Untitled
  3. 3.INTRODUCTION. — FOOTNOTES:
  4. 4.THE SELECT WORKS OF PORPHYRY. — ON ABSTINENCE FROM ANIMAL FOOD. BOOK THE FIRST. — The Arguments of the Peripatetics and Stoics, from Heraclides Ponticus⁠ [16] . — The Arguments of the Epicureans, from Hermachus⁠ [18] . — The Arguments of Claudius the Neapolitan, who published a Treatise against Abstinence from Animal Food. — FOOTNOTES:
  5. 5.ON ABSTINENCE FROM ANIMAL FOOD. BOOK THE SECOND. — FOOTNOTES:
  6. 6.ON ABSTINENCE FROM ANIMAL FOOD. BOOK THE THIRD. — FOOTNOTES:
  7. 7.ON ABSTINENCE FROM ANIMAL FOOD. BOOK THE FOURTH. — FOOTNOTES:
  8. 8.ON THE CAVE OF THE NYMPHS, IN THE THIRTEENTH BOOK OF THE ODYSSEY. — FOOTNOTES:
  9. 9.AUXILIARIES TO THE PERCEPTION OF INTELLIGIBLE NATURES. — SECTION I. — SECTION II. — SECTION III. — FOOTNOTES:
  10. 10.APPENDIX.
  11. 11.APPENDIX. ON THE WANDERINGS OF ULYSSES. — FOOTNOTES:

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