"Thomas Taylor, the platonist, for instance, is really a better man of imagination, a better poet, or perhaps I should say, a better feeder to a poet, than any man between Milton and Wordsworth.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
platonist philosophy strove to give rational expression to this movement, to reconcile cultivated moral sense with the worships of the past, to find a bond between the vagrant religious fancies of the crowd and the remote esoteric faith of the philosophic few.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
The preachers, as we have said, belonged to all the different schools, Stoic or platonist, Cynic or Pythagorean; sometimes, like Dion, they owed little academic allegiance at all.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill