7 August, ep. CLXIV, 4.

8 Lact. Inst. div., IV, 24.

9 Tert. De anima, 20.

10 Bar/owed. 1938.

11 Hieron. Deviris illustr., 12.

12 Losev, 1930, p. 804: "Platonism is the philosophy of monasticism and eldership. Monasticism and eldership are dialectically necessary moments in Plato's understanding of social being."

13 For example, in his teaching on marital fidelity, which is required not only of a woman but also of a man, and in such a way that to know only one woman in his life is not merely a duty but happiness for him (Cato junior, 7, 3).

14 "Quant au Ciceron, je suis du jugement commun que, hors la science, il n'y avait pas beacoup d'excellence en son ame: il etait bon citoyen, d'une nature debonnaire, comme sont volontiers les hommes gras et gausseurs, tel gu'il etait; mais de molesse et de vanite ambi-tieuse, il en avait, sans mentir, beaucoup" (Essais, 11, 10).

15 Lact. Inst. div., VI, 18.

16 Lact. Inst. div., Ill, 25.

17 August. Confessiones, III, 4.

18 Petrarca. Op. cit., p. 98.

19 Per. F. F. Zelinsky (Zelinsky 1922, vol. 1, p. 37).

20 Tusc., V, 2, 5.

21 Cicero ar. Lact. Inst. theol., Ill, 14.

22 Lact. Inst. theol., Ill, 14.

23 Cic., De orat., Ill, 21, 79-80, trans. by F. A. Petrovsky (see: Cicero 1972, pp. 220-221).

24 It is precisely removed, although it is known and ordained; this is the relationship between Petrarch's two epistles to Cicero.

25 The author had occasion to talk about this in his article "Ancient Greek Poetics and World Literature" (see Nast, ed., pp. 146-157).

26 Cf. our remarks on this matter: Averintsev 1979, pp. 41-81, especially pp. 62-65.

27 Aristotle's "rhetoric" begins with the actual equating of rhetoric with what Aristotle calls dialectics (Rhet. I, I, 1354a). On the rhetorical studies of the Neoplatonists, see: Kustas 1973, pp. 6-12, 19-26, 86-95, 174-179 a.o.