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Neo-Platonist, Plotinusist and closet Manichaeist St Augustine had a contentious game as right-sided linesman in the classic match between Germany and Greece, allowing Socrates's diving header despite Marx's claims for offside.

From The Guardian • Nov. 22, 2012

“Agora,” which opens in New York on Friday, is a big-budget two-hour Roman epic that features Ms. Weisz as Hypatia, the Neo-Platonist philosopher and astronomer-mathematician sometimes credited with inventing the hydrometer and the plane astrolabe.

From New York Times • May 22, 2010

This Arab was clearly under the influence of Plotinus or some other Neo-Platonist.

From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Murray, Gilbert

Of the later Greek and Roman writers the Neo-Platonist Plotinus deserves to be mentioned.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

His system is in the main a codification of Aristotle modified by fundamental views of Neo-Platonist origin, and it tends to be a compromise with theology.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various