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Proclus · thesis 24.55

Thesis 24.55

Latin

Sicut intellectus perfectus ab intelligibilibus quaerendus est, ita uirtus sursum ductiua ab intellectualibus; operatio absoluta et sequestrata a materia ab ultramundanis; uita alata a mundanis; expressio diuinorum uera ab angelicis choris; repletio eius, quae a diis est aspirationis, a bonis daemonibus.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 16822

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 sequaestrata

OCR 'materiaab' (farmer1998:16822) split into 'materia ab'.

English

As perfect intellect is to be sought from the intelligibles, so is the upward-leading virtue from the intellectuals; operation that is unbound and set apart from matter from the ultramundane; the winged life from the mundane; the true utterance of divine things from the angelic choirs; and the filling of that which comes of the gods' inspiring, from good daemons.

'repletio eius, quae a diis est aspirationis' is ambiguous (the filling of that which belongs to inspiration from the gods); rendered closely to the Latin and left open. 'ultramundanis' rendered 'ultramundane'; the same term may correspond to 'supermundana' in 24.51. Line 16822 apparatus reads 'sequaestrata' for 'sequestrata' (farmer1998:16830).

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-27 by TRANSLATOR-T03b-2; sense checked against farmer1998:16859; awaiting human check

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

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