The philosophie, commonlie called, the morals vvritten by the learned philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea. Translated out of Greeke into English, and conferred with the Latine translations and the French, by Philemon Holland of Coventrie, Doctor in Physicke. VVhereunto are annexed the summaries necessary to be read before every treatise

AN EPITOME OR BREVIARIE of a Treatise as touching the creation of the Soule, according to Plato in Timaeus.

THis Treatise, entituled, Of the creation of the soule, as it is described in the booke of of Plato named Timaeus, declareth all that Plato, and the Plato∣niques have written of that argument; and inferreth certeine proportions and similitudes Geometricall, which he supposeth pertinent to the specu∣lation [ 10] and intelligence of the nature of the soule: as also certeine Musical and Arithmeticall Theoremes. His meaning and saying is, that the first matter was brought into forme and shape by the soule. Hee attribu∣teth to the universall world a soule; and likewise to every living creature a soule of the owne by it selfe, which ruleth and governeth it. He bringeth in the said soule in some sort not engen∣dred, and yet after a sort subject to generation. But hee affirmeth that eternall matter to have bene formed by God; that evill and vice is an impe springing from the said matter, To the end (quoth he) that it might never come into mans thought, That God was the authour or cause of evill.

All the rest of this Breviarie, is word for word in the Treatise it selfe, [ 20] therefore may be well spared in this place, and not rehearsed a second time.