For Porphyry's dates, place of birth and philosophical school, see Barker 2003,第1226–1227頁. Sarton 1936,第429–430頁 identifies Transjordania as Porphyry's
University Press Giovanni Reale, (1990), A History of Ancient Philosophy: The Schools of the Imperial Age, page 212. SUNY Press Porphyry, Life of Plotinus, 14
and Aristotle in Agreement?: Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to Porphyry, page 37. Oxford University Press. Cyrill. c. Jul. ii. The correct reading