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How did Porphyry organize Plotinus’s Enneads?
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Porphyry organized the writings of his teacher, Plotinus, into a collection titled the Enneads. The title is derived from the Greek word enneas, meaning "set of nine," as Porphyry arranged the treatises into six sets, with each set containing nine individual works.123