@justinscoyle @philipgporter @jordanw41069857 i'm with you guys on augustine as a middle rather than neo-platonist, but i'm pretty confident he read some of the *enneads* -- "lectis  plotini paucissimis libris..." (*de beata vita* 4). enn. 1.8 is probably the central case, as the source for a's "regio dissimilitudinis."