Mercury Trismegistus · thesis 27.7

Thesis 27.7

Latin

Sex uiis futura homini deus denuntiat: per Somnia, Portenta, Aues, Intestina, Spiritum, et Sibyllam.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 17266

Apparatus (Farmer): colon retained from 1486 edition

Colon retained from the 1486 edition (farmer1998:17275).

English

God discloses to man what is to come along six paths: by dreams, by portents, by the flight of birds, by entrails, by possession of spirit, and by the Sibyl.

Sense checked against farmer1998:17329; reworded from a more literal rendering to avoid near-identity with the published English at that line.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T04b; sense checked against farmer1998:17329; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to the ancient doctrine of Mercury Trismegistus (section 27 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports