Iamblichus · thesis 23.8

Thesis 23.8

Latin

Qui finalem causam diluuiorum incendiorumque cognouerit, haec potius «kaθάρσεις», id est purgationes, quam corruptiones uocabit.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 15757

English

One who grasps the final cause behind floods and fires will name them purifications — 'katharseis' — rather than acts of destruction.

Sense checked against farmer1998:15803; reworded for distance from Farmer's rendering. The Greek term is Farmer's own insertion into the text, per his note at farmer1998:15822.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T03b; sense checked against farmer1998:15803; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Iamblichus (section 23 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Discussed in

• Chaim Wirszubski, Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Jewish Mysticism (1989)

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 5>7 Cum dicit Plato in Timao in medio mundi positam animam, quicquid dicant caeteri Platonici, ego per medium lunam intelligo.