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what's Plotinus reading from?

don't you just love when someone reads from a source or references one but doesn't tell you what it is? In Plotinus Enneads 1.8.4 Plotinus says:
> it is, we read, the Soul that has entered into the service of that in which soul-evil is implanted by nature, in whose service the unreasoning phase of the Soul accepts evil-unmeasure, excess and shortcoming, which print forth licentiousness, cowardice, and all other flaws of the soul, all states, foreign to the true nature, which set up false judgments, so that the Soul comes to name things good or evil not by their true value but by the mere test of like and dislike. 

Any one know plotinus's source for this. I assume Plato unless he had notes that were written up by Ammonius or something.
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The Loeb edition translates this section as:

> Which, then, is the evil soul? It is the sort of thing which Plato means when he says "those in whom the part of the soul in which evil naturally resides has been brought into subjection,"^**1** that is, it is the irrational part of the soul which is receptive of evil, that is of unmeasuredness and excess and defect, from which come unrestrained wickedness and cowardice and all the rest of the soul’s evil, involuntary affections which produce false opinions, making it think that the things which it shuns and seeks after are evil and good respectively. 

Footnote **1** gives a reference to Plato's *Phaedrus* 256B2-3.