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Origen deplored Plato, who took pains to learn the languages of Easterners, thus, ‘instead of remaining a Greek’, he opted for ‘behaving as a barbarian in order to benefit Egyptians & Syrians’, wherefore he ended up saying nothing helpful both to those barbarians & to the Greeks.
#Porphyry did not see Plato as an authority, not to mention his loathing of Socrates.
Aeneas of Gaza writes with contempt of Plato having misused the knowledge he received from the Egyptians and introducing transmigration of souls to animals, unlike ‘Plotinus, Harpocration, Boethus, and Numenius.’
