The great interpreter of Plato lived closer to the fall of Rome than to Plato

Plotinus (c. 204–270 CE) built his entire philosophy on Plato, founding what later became known as Neoplatonism — yet he lived so late that his death fell only about 200 years before the conventional fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE, but more than 600 years after Plato died (c. 348 BCE). The devoted successor stood far nearer to Rome's collapse than to the master he spent his life expounding.

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