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93 This is Oehler's text; another reading has twelve, which one would suppose to be the right one.
106 Not Suidas' philosopher of that name, but a renowned physician mentioned by Galen and Pliny (Oehler).
109 The original, as given in Stobaeus, Eclog. i. p. 1026, is this hexameter: Ai\ma ga\r a0nqrw/poij perika/rdio/n e0sti no/hma
110 Or probably that Praxagoras the physician who is often mentioned by Athenaeus and by Pliny (Pamel.).
119 Coimplicitam "entangled" or "embarassed." See the Timoeus pp. 27, 28.
127 Matt. xxvi. 27, 28; Luke xxii. 19, 20; 1 Cor. xi. 25.
132 Said ironically, as if rallying Plato for inconsistency between his theory here and the fact.
133 Supermundiales "placed above this world."
135 See above, c. xii. p. 192.
138 Oehler has "anima;" we should rather have expected "animo," which is another reading.
140 Subjunctive verb, "fuerit."
142 The opposite opinion was held by Tertullian's opponents, who distinguished between the mind and the soul. They said, that when a man was out of his mind, his mind left him, but that his soul remained. (Lactantius, De Opif. xviii.; Instit. Div. vii. 12; La Cerda).
143 See his treatise, Against Marcion.
146 Timoeus, pp. 29, 30, 37, 38.
150 Animationem. The possession and use of an "anima."
152 Spiritu. The mental instinct, just mentioned.
153 Ps. viii. 2; Matt. xxi. 16.
160 Tertullian perhaps mentions this "demus" of Athens as the birthplace of Plato (Oehler).
163 Tetullian wrote a work De Fato, which is lost. Fulgentius, p. 561, gives a quotation from it.
164 i.e., the carnal, the animal, and the spiritual. Comp. Adv. Valentin. xxv., and De Resur. Carnis, lv.