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+===== Albinus (or Alkinus) =====
 Platonist philosopher, who lived at Smyrna, and was teacher of Galen. A short tract by him, entitled __Introduction to Plato's Dialogues__, has come down to us. From the title of one of the extant manuscripts we learn that Albinus was a pupil of Gaius the Platonist. The original title of his work was probably __Prologos__, and it may have originally formed the initial section of notes taken at the lectures of Gaius. After explaining the nature of the Dialogue, which he compares to a Drama, the writer goes on to divide the __Dialogues__ of Plato into four classes, logical, critical, physical, ethical, and mentions another division of them into Tetralogies, according to their subjects. He advises that the Alcibiades, Phaedo, Republic, and Timaeus, should be read in a series.