quibus vix potuistis adduci ut praefecturam philosophiae iungeretis, cum vos consectanei vestri Plotini dogmatibus inhaerentes ad profundum intempestivae quietis otium Platonicorum palaestra rapuisset, cuius disciplinae tunc fore adstruxi liberam professionem, cum nil familiae debuisses.
Yet even these appeals were hardly able to induce you to combine the charge of a province with your philosophical studies, for you were absorbed in the dogmas of your master Plotinus, and the school of the Platonists had swept you towards the profound inactivity of an unseasonable quietism. I showed that the liberty to profess such a doctrine would only come when you no longer owed a debt to your family.
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