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Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 / In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods

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A sequence of philosophical essays investigates what it means to live well and to be happy, testing rival definitions such as pleasure, conformity to nature, sensation, and the rational life. The arguments ask whether animals or plants could qualify as happy under these accounts and distinguish mere felt pleasure from the claim that happiness requires knowledge, judgment, or intellectual apprehension. The texts critique views that reduce the Good to sensation or to reason as an instrumental tool and advance the position that true happiness depends on intrinsic interior qualities and higher faculties rather than on external conditions or mere physiological states.

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Abandonment by Providence, even of the mediocre, impossible, iii. 2.9 (47-1058).

Ability or desire is the limit of man's union with the divinity, v. 8.11 (31-569).

Absolute Beauty is a formless shape, vi. 7.33 (38-754).

Absolute Evil is the goal of the degenerate soul, i. 8.15 (51-1163).

Absolute Existent is preceded by contingent, vi. 1.26 (42-881).

Abstraction is method of reaching divinity, vi. 8.21 (39-811).

Abstraction of qualities ends in thing-in-itself, ii. 4.10 (12-207).

Abstraction of the form produces thought of infinite, vi. 6.3 (34-646).

Abundance and Need, myth of, iii. 6.14 (26-375).

Abundance (Poros), myth of, iii. 5.2-10 (50-1125 to 1140).

Academy, vi. 1.14, 30 (42-863, 888).

Accidents are received by the soul from matter, v. 9.14 (5-117).

Accidents, is the fifth physical category of Plotinos, vi. 3.3 (44-937).

Accomplishments are only temporary crutches for development, i. 4.16 (46-1040).

Accretion, foreign, is the nature of ugliness, i. 6.5 (1-48).

Accretions to soul, and body, are removed from soul by philosophic "separation," i. 1.12 (53-1204).

Action and experience does not include prediction with its responsiveness, and is underlayed by transmission, reception, and relation, vi. 1.22 (42-874).

Action and experiencing, Aristotelian category, vi. 1.15 (42-863).

Action and passion iii. 3.2 (48-1078).

Action and reaction form but a single genus, vi. 1.19 (42-870).

Action and suffering cannot be separate categories, but are subsumed under movement, vi. 1.17 (42-866).

Action does not figure among true categories, vi. 2.16 (43-920).

Action is natural on both wholes and parts, iv. 4.31 (28-487).

Action, uniform, is exerted by body and varied by the soul, iv. 7.4 (2-62).

Actions, some appear imperfect when not joined to time, vi. 1.19 (42-868).

Actions do not control freedom of will and virtue, vi. 8.5 (39-779).

Active life predisposes to subjection to enchantments, iv. 4.43 (28-507).

Activity of soul is triple: thought, self-preservation and creation, iv. 8.3 (6-125).

Actors good and bad, are rewarded by the manager: so are souls, iii. 2.17 (47-1072).

Actual, everything is actual in the intelligible world, ii. 5.3 (25-346).

Actual matter cannot be anything, as it is non-being, ii. 5.2, 4 (25-343 to 347).

Actuality and potentiality, iii. 9.8 (13-225).

Actuality and potentiality are inapplicable to the divinity, ii. 9.1 (33-600).

Actualization, continuous, constitutes Intelligence, iv. 7.13 (18), (2-84); iv. 8.6, 7 (6-129, 130).

Actualization is a far better category than doing or acting, vi. 1.15 (42-863).

Actualization is prior to potentiality (devolution), iv. 7.8 (11), (2-74).

Actualization of soul in life, is the sole use of its existence, iv. 8.5 (6-127).

Actualization, single and simple, iv. 7.12 (17), (2-83).

Actualization when appearing is harmonized to its seminal reason, vi. 3.16 (44-960).

Actualizations are none of bodies that enter into a mixture, iv. 7.8 (10), (2-72).

Actualizations are the condition of Intelligence, because its thought is identical with its essence, v. 9.3 (5-104).

Actualizations, permanent, form the hypostasis, v. 3.12 (49-1111).

Actualizations, relative, are sensations, not experiences, iv. 6.2 (41-831).

Acuteness may destroy excessive ecstatic vision, v. 8.11 (31-570).

Administration by Jupiter does not imply memory, iv. 4.9 (28-453).

Admiration of his handiwork, by the Creator, refers to the world-model, v. 8.8 (31-564).

Admiration of the world, by Plato, supplements his hatred of the body, ii. 9.17 (33-633).

Adrastea, law of, is justice, ii. 3.8 (52-1173); iii. 2.4, 13 (47-1049 to 1062).

Adulteries not produced by planet-positions, ii. 3.6 (52-1171).

Adumbrations of superior principles, i. 6.8 (1-52).

Advantages resulting from ecstasy, v. 8.11 (31-570).

Aeon Jesus, is unaccountable, ii. 9.1 (33-601).

Aeon, see eternity, throughout, iii. 7.1 sqq (45-985).

Aesthetic sense appreciates beauty, i. 6.2 (1-42).

Affection and weaknesses of man subject him to magic, iv. 4.44 (28-508).

"Affection of matter," definition of soul; if such, whence is she? iv. 7.3.d (2-59).

Affections are common to soul and body; not all are such, i. 1.5 (53-1197).

Affections caused by incorporeal's affective part, iii. 6.4 (26-357).

Affections, derivation of qualities from them is of no importance, vi. 1.11 (42-857).

Affections of soul, like a musician playing a lyre, iii. 6.4 (26-358).

Affections produced by "tension" in lyre-strings, iv. 7.8 (2-75).

Age, pun on "aeons," iii. 7.4 (45-992).

Aggregate, composite, see "combination," i. 1.1 (53-1191).

Aggregate individual, formed by uniting of soul and body, i. 1.6 (53-1197).

Aggregate of molecules could not possess life and intelligence, iv. 7.2, 3 (2-57).

Agriculture, v. 9.11 (5-114).

Aid to magnitude-perception, is color-difference, ii. 8.1 (35-681).

Air and fire, action of, not needed by Heaven, ii. 1.8 (40-826).

Air contained in intelligible world, vi. 7.11 (38-720).

Air not necessary, even for hearing, iv. 5.5 (29-523).

Air, relation to light, iv. 5.6 (29-524).

Air, useless as transmitting medium, iv. 5.3 (29-519).

Alexander of Aphrodisia's theory of mixture, iv. 7.2, 8 (2-58, 72); iii. 1.7 (3-96).

Alienation, v. 1.10 (10-190).

All in all, iii. 8.8 (30-543); iv. 3.8 (27-402).

All is intelligence, vi. 7.17 (38-729).

All things are united by a common source, vi. 7.12 (38-721).

All things, how the same principle can exist in them, vi. 4.6 (22-295).

All things, is the soul, iii. 4.3 (15-236).

All things, transcended by their principle, v. 2.1 (11-193).

Alone with the alone, i. 6.7 (1-50); vi. 7.34 (38-757); vi. 9.11 (9-172).

Aloneness of Supreme, v. 1.6 (10-182).

Alteration, definition of, vi. 3.22 (44-973).

Alteration, not constituted by composition and decomposition, vi. 3.25 (44-978).

Alteration of soul, Stoic conception, opposed, iii. 6.3 (26-355).

Alternate living in Intelligence and world, by soul, iv. 8.4 (6-126).

Alternate rising and falling of soul when in body, iii. 1.8 (3-97).

Amphibians, souls are, iv. 8.48 (6-126).

Analogy explains prediction, iii. 3.6 (48-1086).

Analogy only allows us to attribute physical qualities to the Supreme, vi. 8.8 (39-785).

Analysis, contingency is eliminated in, vi. 8.14 (39-798).

Analyze, object of myths, iii. 5.10 (50-1138).

Anger localized in the heart, iv. 3.23 (27-426); iv. 4.28 (28-481).

Anger-part of earth, iv. 4.28 (28-482).

Anger-part of soul explained, iii. 6.2 (26-354).

Anger-power, does not originate in body, iv. 4.28 (28-481).

Anger-trace of the soul, originates in growth and generative power, iv. 4.28 (28-481).

Animal, existing is intelligence (Plato) iii. 9.1 (13-220).

Animal nature formed by light of soul, i. 1-7 (53-1198).

Animal nature, how it is generated, i. 1.12,(53-1205).

Animal, relation of, to human nature, i. 1.7 (53-1199).

Animal, the living, i. 1.5 (53-1196).

Animal, what is it, i. 1.1 (53-1191).

Animals, all are born from essence, vi. 2.21 (43-929).

Animals, are they happy? i. 4.1 (46-1019).

Animals, distinction to the whole, i. 1.7 (53-1199).

Animals, do they possess right to living well, i. 4.2 (46-1020).

Animals, four kinds, seen in intelligence, iii. 9.1 (13-221).

Animals, individual and universal, exist later than number, vi. 6.15 (34-668).

Animals, irrational, must exist within intelligence, vi. 7.8 (38-713).

Animals, lower nature of, ridiculous to complain of, iii. 2.9 (47-1059).

Animals, many are not so irrational as different, vi. 7.9 (38-714).

Animals, their animating principle, i. 1.10 (53-1204).

Animated, universe was always, iv. 3.9 (27-404).

Animating principle of animals, i. 1.11 (53-1204).

Answers, how they come to prayers, iv. 4.41 (28-505).

Antechamber of good is intelligence, v. 9.2 (5-104).

Anterior things can be only in lower principles, iv. 4.16 (28-461).

Anteriority in intelligible, is order not time, iv. 4.1 (28-443).

Anxiety absent from rule of world by soul, iv. 8.2 (6-122).

Aphrodite, see Venus, pun on, iii. 5.8 (50-1137).

Apollo, name of Supreme, v. 5.6 (32-584).

Apostasy of soul from God, v. 1.1 (10-173).

Appearance, by it only does matter participate in the intelligible, iii. 6.11 (26-369).

Appearance, magnitude is only, iii. 6.18 (26-381).

Appearance, makes up unreal sense objects, iii. 6.12 (26-371).

Appearance of intelligence in the intelligible, v. 3.8 (49-1102).

Apperception-unity, iv. 4.1 (28-442).

Appetite is the actualization of lustful desire, iv. 8.8 (6-132).

Appetite keeps an affection, not memory, iv. 3.28 (27-435).

Appetite located in combination of body and soul, iv. 4.20 (28-468).

Appetite not simultaneous with desire, i. 1.5 (53-1197).

Appetite noticed only when perceived by reason or interior sense, iv. 8.8 (6-132).

Appetite, when swaying soul, leaves it passive, iii. 1.9 (3-98).

Apportionment of spirit, iv. 7.8 (2-68).

Appreciation of self, v. 1.1 (10-174).

Approach, how the body approaches the soul, vi. 4.15 (22-309).

Approach impossible in connection with non-spatial intelligible light, v. 5.8 (32-587).

Approach of soul to good, by simplification, i. 6.6 (1-50).

Approach to Supreme is sufficient talk of Him, v. 3.14 (49-1114).

Approach to the First, manner of, v. 5.10 (32-591).

Approach to the soul, which is lowest divine, v. 1.7 (10-186).

Approaching of soul's rejection of form, proves formlessness of the Supreme, vi. 7.34 (38-756).

Archetype of the world, the intelligible is, v. 1.4 (10-178).

Archetype, universal, contained by intelligence, v. 9.9 (5-112).

Archetypes, vi. 5.8 (23-322).

Aristotelian category of When? vi. 1.13 (42-860).

Aristotelian distinction, actuality and potentiality, ii. 5.1 (25-341).

Aristotle was wrong in considering rough, rare and dense qualities, vi. 1.11 (42-857).

Art intelligible, creates the artist and later nature, v. 8.1 (31-552).

Art makes a statue out of rough marble, v. 8.1 (31-552).

Artificial movements, vi. 3.26 (44-980).

Artist of the universe is the soul, iv. 7.13 (2-84).

Arts, auxiliary, which help the progress of nature, v. 9.11 (5-115).

Arts, dependent on the soul, v. 9.14 (5-118).

Arts, most achieve their own ends, iv. 4.31 (28-488).

Arts, some, merely earthly, others more intelligible, v. 9.11 (5-114).

Ascended soul, not even, need be divided, iv. 4.1 (28-442).

Ascension of sign, absurd, ii. 3.6 (52-1171).

Ascension of soul in ecstasy, vi. 9.11 (9-170).

Ascension to Divinity, iv. 7.10 (2-79).

Ascension towards divinity, process of life, i. 6.7 (1-50).

Ascent cannot stop with the soul, why? v. 9.4 (5-106).

Ascent of life witnessed to disappearance of contingency, vi. 8.15 (39-801).

Ascent of the soul psychologically explained, vi. 4.16 (22-310).

Aspects and houses, absurdity, ii. 3.4 (52-1168).

Assimilation depends on taking a superior model, i. 2.7 (19-267).

Assimilation of matter, not complete in earthly defects, v. 9.12 (5-115).

Assimilation to divine, key of vision to ecstasy, i. 6.9 (1-53).

Assimilation to divinity, is flight from world, i. 2.5 (19-263).

Assimilation to divinity, is soul's welfare and beauty. i. 6.6 (1-49).

Assimilation to divinity results only in higher virtues, i. 2.1 (19-256).

Assimilation to Supreme, by homely virtues, indirectly, i. 2.3 (19-260).

Astrologers make cosmic deductions from prognostication, iii. 1.2 (3-89).

Astrological influence is merely an indication, iv. 4.34 (28-494).

Astrological influence, partly action, partly significance, iv. 4.34 (28-495).

Astrological power not due to physical soul, iv. 4.38 (28-501).

Astrological system of fate, iii. 1.5 (3-92).

Astrological theories absurd, ii. 3.6 (52-1171).

Astrological views of Venus, Jupiter and Mercury, ii. 3.5 (52-1169).

Astrologically, divine would be blamed for unjust acts, iii. 2.10 (47-1059).

Astrology confuted, leaves influence of world-soul, iv. 4.32 (28-490).

Astrology replaced by natural production of souls, iv. 4.38 (28-501).

Astrology replaced by radiation of good and characteristic figures, iv. 4.35 (28-498).

Astrology reveals teleology, ii 3.7 (52-1172).

Astrology, signs only concatenations from universal reason, iv. 4.3 (28-502).

Astrology, truth of, judgement of one part by another, ii. 3.7 (52-1173).

Athens, vi. 1.14 (42-863).

Atomism, does not demand a medium for vision, iv. 5.2 (29-516).

Atoms, iii. 1.2 (3-88).

Atoms do not explain matter, ii. 4.7 (12-204).

Atropos, ii. 3.15 (52-1182).

Attachment to centre constitutes divinity, vi. 9.8 (9-163).

Attention, condition of perception, v. 1.12 (10-191).

Attracting all things, does the power and beauty of essence, vi. 6.18 (34-678).

Attribute, fourth physical category of Plotinos, vi. 3.3 (44-937).

Attributing qualities to good, would degrade it, v. 5.13 (32-595).

Audacity not in higher soul, see boldness, i. 1.2 (53-1192).

Audacity the cause of human apostasy, v. 1.1 (10-173); v. 2.2 (11-195).

Author of this perfection must be above it, vi. 7.32 (38-752).

Autocracy of divinity, vi. 8.21 (39-810).

Aversion for ugliness, explains love of beauty, i. 6.5 (1-47).

Avoid magic enchantments, how to, iv. 4.44 (28-510).

Avoidance of passions, is task of philosophy, iii. 6.5 (26-358).

Bacchus, mirror of, iv. 3.12 (27-409).

Ballet, vi. 9.8 (9-165); vi. 2.11 (43-912).

Ballet dancer, iii. 2.17 (47-1071).

Bastard, reason goes beyond corporeity, ii. 4.12 (12-212).

Bastard reasoning, is abstraction reaching thing in itself, ii. 4.10, 12 (12-207, 212); i. 8.9, 10 (51-1156); vi. 8.8 (39-786).

Bath-tub, simile of, vi 9.8 (9-163).

Beauties, moral, more delightful than sense-beauties, i. 6.4 (1-46).

Beautification, by descent upon object of reason from divine, i. 6.2 (1-43).

Beautiful, inferior to good, v. 5.12 (32-593).

Beautiful, most things, such only by participation, i. 6.2 (1-43).

Beautiful, nothing more could be imagined than the world, ii. 9.4 (33-606).

Beautiful, the Supreme, of three ranks of existence, vi. 7.42 (38-770).

Beautiful, what is its principle, i. 6.1 (1-41).

Beauty, v. 1.11 (10-189).

Beauty absolute, is a formless shape, vi. 7.33 (38-754).

Beauty and good, identical, i. 6.6 (1-51).

Beauty and power of essence attracts all things, vi. 6.18 (34-678).

Beauty appreciated by an aesthetic sense, i. 6.3 (1-43).

Beauty belongs to men, when they belong to and know themselves, v. 8.13 (31-574).

Beauty classified along with the relatives, vi. 3.11 (44-952).

Beauty comes from form imparted by originator, v. 8.2 (31-553).

Beauty consists in kinship to the soul, i. 6.2 (1-42).

Beauty consists in participation in a form, i. 6.2 (1-43).

Beauty does not figure among true categories, vi. 2.17 (43-920).

Beauty does not possess extension, iv. 7.8 (2-69).

Beauty, emotions of, caused by invincible soul, i. 6.5 (1-46).

Beauty essential is Supreme, the shapeless shaper, and the transcendent, vi. 7.33 (38-754).

Beauty external, appreciation of, depends on cognition of interior beauty, v. 8.2 (31-554).

Beauty external, partial, does not mar beauty of universe, ii. 9.17 (33-634).

Beauty, highest conceivable, is the model, v. 8.8 (31-564).

Beauty, if it is a genus, must be one of the posterior ones, vi. 2.18 (43-923).

Beauty inferior to good, i. 6.9 (1-54).

Beauty in last analysis is intelligible, v. 8.3 (31-555).

Beauty in nothing if not in God v. 8.8 (31-564).

Beauty intelligible, v. 8 (31).

Beauty intelligible, does not shine merely on surface, v. 8.10 (31-568).

Beauty interior, could not be appreciated, without interior model, i. 6.4 (1-45).

Beauty is creating principle of primary reason, v. 8.3 (31-555).

Beauty is immortal, iii. 5.1 (50-1124).

Beauty is inherent wisdom, v. 8.2 (31-554).

Beauty is symmetry, acc. to Stoics, opposed, i. 6.1 (1-41).

Beauty is unseen, in supreme fusion, v. 8.11 (31-570).

Beauty, love for, explained by aversion for opposite, i. 6.5 (1-47).

Beauty makes being desirable, v. 8.9 (31-565).

Beauty model, is intelligence, hence very beautiful, v. 8.13 (31-573).

Beauty not in physical characters, but in color form, v. 8.2 (31-553).

Beauty of body need not imply attachment thereto, ii. 9.17 (33-634).

Beauty of daily life reviewed, in sight, sound, science and morals, i. 6.1 (1-40).

Beauty of soul is as the matter to the soul, v. 8.3 (31-555); 6.6 (1-43).

Beauty of world, even added to, iv. 3.14 (27-412).

Beauty primary, chiefly revealed in virtuous soul, v. 8.3 (31-555).

Beauty, shining, highest appearance of vision of intelligible wisdom, v. 8.10 (31-568).

Beauty that is perceivable is a form, beneath super beautiful, v. 8.8 (31-564).

Beauty transition from sense to intellectual, i. 6.2 (1-43).

Beauty visible, is effect and image of the intelligible, iii. 5.1 (50-1122).

Becoming, v. 1.9 (10-187).

Begetter of intelligence must be simpler than it, iii. 8.8 (30-542).

Begetter of intelligence reached by intuition, not reason, iii. 8.8 (30-543).

Begetting, eternal, is the world, ii. 9.3 (33-604).

Begetting, lower forms of, due to seminal reasons, iii. 8.7 (30-541).

Begetting Son, by Supreme, result of ecstasy, v. 8.12 (31-572).

Beginning, Heaven has none, proves its immortality, ii. 1.4 (40-818).

Begotten, nothing is in universal soul, vi. 4.14 (22-307).

Begotten what is, not seminal reason, contains order, iv. 4.16 (28-461).

Being, v. 1.5, 8 (10-181 and 186).

Being, above intelligent life, iii. 6.6 (25-360).

Being, actualized, less perfect than essence, ii. 6.1 (17-245).

Being and actualization, constitute self-existent principle, vi. 8.7 (39-784).

Being and essence identical with unity, vi. 9.2 (9-149).

Being and quiddity earlier than suchness, ii. 6.2 (17-248).

Being cannot be ascribed to matter, vi. 3.7 (44-944).

Being cannot precede such being, ii. 6.2 (17-248).

Being contains its cause, vi. 7.3 (38-704).

Being desirable because beautiful, v. 8.9 (31-566).

Being distinguished into four senses, vi. 1.2 (42-839).

Being, every one, is a specialized organ of the universe, iv. 4.45 (28-510).

Being in the intelligible is generation in the sense-world, vi. 3.1 (44-933).

Being is very wisdom, v. 8.4, 5 (31-559).

Being loves essence as entire, vi. 5.10 (23-325).

Being lower form of, possessed by evil, i. 8.3 (51-1145).

Being of a soul, iv. 1. (4-100).

Being of a thing displayed by its energy, iii. 1.1 (3-87).

Being physical, is that which is not in a subject, vi. 3.5 (44-941).

Being physical, principle of all other things, vi. 3.4 (44-940).

Being present everywhere entire, only solution of a puzzle, vi. 5.3 (23-317).

Being primary and secondary, divided by no substantial differences, vi. 3.9 (44-949).

Being supra lunar, is deity, in intelligible, iii. 5.6 (50-1132).

Being supreme, not dependent on it, therefore above it, vi. 8.19 (39-807).

Being the basis of judgment, in things participating in being, vi. 5.2 (23-315).

Being universal, description of, vi. 4.2 (23-286).

Being, universal, is undividable, vi. 4.3 (22-288).

Beings, all are contemplation, iii. 8.7 (30-542).

Beings, all contained by intelligence generatively, v. 9.6 (5-109).

Benefits are granted to men through the world-soul's mediation, iv. 4.30 (28-486).

Better nature of man, not dominant because of subconscious nature, iii. 3.4 (48-1081).

Bewitched, gnostics imagine intelligible entities can be, ii. 9.14 (33-627).

Beyond first, impossible to go, vi. 8.11 (39-791).

Bile, fulfils unique role in universe, ii. 3.5 (52-1171).

Birds, overweighted like sensual men, v. 9.1 (5-102).

Birth of subordinate deities, inhering in Supreme, v. 8.9 (31-566).

Birth of subordinate divinities does not affect power of Supreme, v. 8.9 (31-565).

Birth of time reveals nature, iii. 7.10 (45-1005).

Blamed for its imperfections, the world should not be, iii. 2.3 (47-1046).

Blank, mental, differs from impression of shapeless, ii. 4.10 (12-208).

Boast of kinship with divinities, while not being able to leave body, ridiculous, ii. 9.18 (33-637).

Bodies added, introduce conflicting motions, ii. 2.2 (14-231).

Bodies, classification of, vi. 3.9 (44-948).

Bodies classified, not only by forms and qualities and specific forms, vi. 3.10 (44-950).

Bodies could not subsist with power of universal Soul iv. 7.3 (2-60).

Bodies, different kinds of, why souls take on, iv. 3.12 (27-410).

Bodies, even simple, analyzed into form and matter, iv. 7.1 (2-56).

Bodies, human, more difficult to manage than world-body iv. 8.2 (6-121).

Bodies of souls, may be related differently, iv. 4.29 (28-485).

Bodies simple, could not exist, without world-soul iv. 7.3 (2-60).

Bodies, souls descend into, why and how? iv. 3.8 (27-401).

Body, activated only by incorporeal powers, iv. 7.8 (2-70).

Body alone visible, reason why soul is said to be in it, iv. 3.20 (27-419).

Body and soul, consequences of mixture, i. 1.4 (53-1194).

Body and soul forms fusion, iv. 4.18 (28-465).

Body and soul mixture impossible, i. 1.4 (53-1195).

Body and soul primitive relation between, i. 1.3 (53-1194).

Body and soul relation between iv. 3.19 (27-418).

Body, anger-power, does not originate in it, iv. 4.28 (28-480).

Body as rationalized matter, ii. 7.3 (37-696).

Body can lose parts, not the soul, iv. 7.5 (2-63).

Body cannot possess virtue, iv. 7.8 (2-69).

Body cannot think, iv. 7.8 (2-68).

Body contains one kind of desires, iv. 4.20 (28-468).

Body cosmic, perfect and self-sufficient, iv. 8.2 (6-122).