Proclus · thesis 24.21

Thesis 24.21

Latin

Proprium est supermundanorum deorum assimilare et tradere entibus compassionem illam et inuicem communionem, quam habent ex similitudine unius ad alterum.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 16273

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486, 1487 super mundanorum

English

It is proper to the supermundane gods to make things alike and to pass on to beings that fellow-feeling and mutual communion which they hold by reason of the likeness of one to another.

'assimilare' rendered 'to make alike'; 'compassio' rendered 'fellow-feeling'. The 1486 and 1487 editions print 'super mundanorum' as two words (farmer1998:16299); the packet's normalised spelling is kept. Sense checked against farmer1998:16327.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-27 by TRANSLATOR-T03b-1; sense checked against farmer1998:16327; awaiting human check

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 3>2 Non possumus dicere quod de re precisissime sumpta aliquid praedicetur praedicatione proprie dicta.