^{page 1 note 1} The references are to the volume, page, and line of the Teubner edition of Plutarch's Moralia. NO. I. VOL. XIX.

^{page 2 note 1} Proclus seems to imply that the ten excluded the Timaeus and the Parmenides. Olympiodorus (Prolegomena, § XXVI.) quotes Iamblichus as mentioning twelve dialogues, and gives the list: Alcibiades, Philebus, Gorgias, Phaedro, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Phaedrus, Symposium, Timaeus, Parmenides. Laws, Republic. But he adds the last two as an afterthought, because ‘certain people’ wish to include them.

^{page 4 note 1} I do not wish to be taken as denying the real originality of the best of the later neo-Platonists. But it is significant that, on the whole, they appear to be anxious to deny their own originality, and to claim that they are merely repeating the thought of Plato.

^{page 5 note 1} Is the Strato whose ⋯πορɭαι are quoted so frequently by Olympiodorus on the Phaedo the same as Strato ⋯ ϕνσικ⋯ς quoted by Proclus the Timaeus? He apparently lived about the same time as Posidonius.

^{page 5 note 2} The suggestion of Sinko in the pamphlet quoted below, that Gaius was the head of the Academy, has absolutely no evidence at all in its support.

^{page 6 note 1} Taking this into account, we may well doubt whether Proclus had ever himself seen the commentary of Crantor, or whether it was extant in his time at all.

^{page 6 note 2} I suspect in Plutarch the first signs of the tendency that we have already observed in later writers—the tendency, that is, to assume that if Xenocrates held certain views himself, he must necessarily have ascribed them to his master.

^{page 6 note 3} The remarks of his quoted by Plutarch and Proclus on the Timaeus might have been his own opinions. But Olympiodorus refers to what looks like a definite piece of explanation by him of the meaning of ϕρονρά in the Phaedo (Olympiodorus, , In Phaed., ed. Teubner, , p. 85)Google Scholar . We are not told from what work this passage is quoted .

^{page 7 note 1} This was first shown by J. Freudenthal, Hellenistische Studien III.: Der Platoniker Albinos und der falsche Alkinoos.

^{page 7 note 2} It has been suggested that this is an inference from the description of volcanic phenomena in the Phaedo. This is quite possible. But it is not likely that the inference would have occurred independently to several authors.

^{page 11 note 1} In particular it throws some light on the contents of that library of the Academy to which these commentators had access, on the strength of which some modern writers seem prepared to treat them as almost first-hand authorities on Plato.

^{page 12 note 1} The name of Aenesidemus in this passage is a conjectural emendation, originally made by Fabricius, for an otherwise unknown name in the MSS. But the conjecture is almost certainly right, and has been universally accepted.