Tantus est numerus hymnorum Orphei, quantus est numerus cum quo deus triplex creauit saeculum, sub quaternarii pythagorici forma numeratus.
Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 25675; 1486 print folio <29v/30r>
Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 qnaternani
1486 misprints 'qnaternani' for 'quaternarii' (farmer1998:25691).
English
The Orphic hymns number exactly as many as the number the threefold god used in creating the world, a number reckoned by the method of the Pythagorean quaternary.
Sense checked against farmer1998:25726; no divergence.
Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T09b; sense checked against farmer1998:25726; awaiting human check
Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 10>, on the way of understanding the Orphic hymns) · Pico's stance: endorses
Discussed in
Giulio Busi and Raphael Ebgi, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Mito, magia, Qabbalah (2014)
Chaim Wirszubski, Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Jewish Mysticism (1989)
Mention records in the corpus: 4 (deterministic harvest; see Method).
Farmer's cross-references
11>56Qui sciuerit explicare quaternariumin denarium habebit modum, si sit peritus Cabalae, deducendi ex nomine ineffabili nomen .1xxii. litteraru
5>5Empedocles per spheram intelligibilem a Venere contentam, nihil aliud intelligit quam mundum archetipum ab ordine intra se manentis primae p