Proclus · thesis 24.18

Thesis 24.18

Latin

Sicut paternalis proprietas est solum in intelligibilibus, ita conditoria siue factiua solum in deis nouis; paterna simul et conditoria in exemplari intelligibili; conditoria et paterna in opifici.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 16171

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 paterna inopificia. | 1487 paterna inopifitia.

Latin as in the packet with run-together or artefact spellings normalised: 'conditoriain' to 'conditoria in'; 'conditoriaet' to 'conditoria et'.

English

As the paternal property exists solely among the intelligibles, so the property of founding or making exists solely among the new gods; the paternal and the founding together are in the intelligible exemplar; the founding and the paternal are in the maker.

OCR/print run-ons 'conditoriain' and 'conditoriaet' split as 'conditoria in', 'conditoria et' (farmer1998:16172-16173). 'in opifici' is printed thus (1486 apparatus: 'paterna inopificia', farmer1998:16188), a case-form problem in the print; the sense 'in the maker (opifex)' is taken. Farmer says the punctuation of the early editions is corrupt and that he reconstructed the sense (farmer1998:16204); the rendering follows the Latin as printed in the packet, so the division of clauses is uncertain. Sense checked against farmer1998:16230.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-27 by TRANSLATOR-T03b-1; sense checked against farmer1998:16230; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Proclus (section 24 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Farmer's cross-references

• 22.1 Per patrem apud Platonem intelligere debemus causam quae a seipsa totum effectum producit; per factorem eam quae materiam accipit ab alio.
• 22.2 Opifex mundi est supermundana anıma.
• 22.3 Exemplar non est aliud quam intellectus ipsius opificis animae.
• 23.2 Opifex sensibilis mundi septimus est hierarchiae intellectualis.