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Porphyry · thesis 22.7

Thesis 22.7

Latin

Sicut Apollo est intellectus solaris, ita Aesculapius est intellectus lunaris.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 15459

English

Apollo functions as the intellect proper to the sun; Aesculapius, by the same token, as the intellect proper to the moon.

Sense checked against farmer1998:15516; reworded for distance from Farmer's rendering.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T03b; sense checked against farmer1998:15516; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Porphyry (section 22 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Discussed in

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

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