P. 50. _Better worth saving than ten thousand corporeal eyes._

Iamblichus here alludes to what Plato says in the seventh book of his

Republic, respecting the mathematical disciplines. For he there says,

“that the soul through these disciplines has an organ purified and

enlightened, which is blinded and buried by studies of another kind, an

organ better worth saving than ten thousand eyes, since truth becomes

visible through this alone.”