Note 006
The metaphysics of the soul are disengaged by
Cicero (Tusculan. l. i.) and Maximus of Tyre (Dissertat.
xvi.) from the intricacies of dialogue, which sometimes
amuse, and often perplex, the readers of the Phaedrus, the
Phaedon, and the Laws of Plato.
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 47