Proclus · thesis 24.39

Thesis 24.39

Latin

Opifex, ad quaternitatem respiciens per se animalis, quatuor fabricat partes principales mundi.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 16587

English

The maker, looking to the fourfold of the animal per se, fashions the four chief parts of the world.

'opifex' is the demiurge ('maker'); Farmer's note identifies the demiurge here with the third of the seven chief members of the intellectual hebdomad (farmer1998:16622-16625). 'per se animal' is kept in Latin form because it is a fixed term for the intelligible living being.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-27 by TRANSLATOR-T03b-2; sense checked against farmer1998:16642; awaiting human check

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 24.18 Sicut paternalis proprietas est solum in intelligibilibus, ita conditoria siue factiua solum in deis nouis; paterna simul et conditoriain ex
• 24.26 Iupiter, Neptunnus, et Pluto, Saturni regnum partientes, a Saturno Regnum non accipiunt nisi per medium conditoris Iouis.
• 24.38 In per se uiuente apparet primo quaternitas_unius, entis, unius entalis, et entis unialis.
• 3>8 Si theologia theologice tradatur, erit ut de primo subiecto de eo quod est unialiter unum, et de quolibet quod est secundum suum esse uniale