Adeland the Arab · thesis 21.6

Thesis 21.6

Latin

Quia sicut dixit Abdala, videre somnia est fortitudo imaginationis, intelligere ea est fortitudo intellectus, ideo qui uidet ea ut plurimum non intelligit ea.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 15358

English

Because, as Abdala said, to see dreams is a strength of the imagination, and to understand them a strength of the intellect, it follows that those who see them for the most part do not understand them.

No English translation is given for this thesis in Farmer's edition, whose note there (farmer1998:15378) discusses the identity of 'Abdallah' as uncertain; translated directly from the Latin.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T03b; no Farmer English translation located for this thesis; sense checked against Farmer's note at farmer1998:15378; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Adeland the Arab (section 21 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Discussed in

• Giulio Busi and Raphael Ebgi, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Mito, magia, Qabbalah (2014)

Mention records in the corpus: 1 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 21.4 Maior pars rerum quae in somnis innotescunt aut per purgationem animae, aut per indemoniationem, aut per meram spiritus reuelationem innotes
• 3>3 Qui attingit rem in diffinitione_attingit rem in alteritate.
• 7.1 Possibile est prophetia in somnis per illustrationem intellectus agentis super animam nostram.