Note 169 — FIRST ENNEAD, BOOK EIGHT. Of the Nature and Origin of Evils.156
Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie translation
It is noteworthy that Plotinos in his old age here finally recognizes Evil in itself, just as Plato in his later work, the Laws (x. p. 897; Cary, 8) adds to the good World-soul, an evil one. This, for Plotinos, was harking back to Numenius's evil world-soul, fr. 16.