Orphic Hymns · thesis 10>22

Thesis 10>22

Latin

Qui heroas in duplices non diuiserit, natiuos et aduentitios, saepe errabat.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 26010

Apparatus (Farmer): 1487 et ad ventiticos

1487 reads 'et ad ventiticos' for 'et aduentitios' (farmer1998:26026). The verb is printed 'errabat' (imperfect); Farmer's translation implies the future 'errabit' (farmer1998:26069). The tense is left as printed and the doubt is noted, not resolved, here.

English

Failing to divide the heroes into two classes, native and foreign, will lead one into frequent error.

Sense checked against farmer1998:26069, which reads the verb as future ('will often err'); rendered here in a way that is neutral between the printed imperfect and the implied future, given the doubt recorded in latin_note.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T09b; sense checked against farmer1998:26069; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 10>, on the way of understanding the Orphic hymns) · Pico's stance: endorses

Farmer's cross-references

• 10>20 Per septennarium hymnorum paternae menti attributorum, Protogoni, Palladis, Saturni, Veneris, Rheae, Legis, Bacchi, potest intelligens et pr
• 22.9 Duplex est malorum demonum genus; alterum animae sunt et substantiales demones; alterum materiales potentiae et accidentales demones.
• 24.36 Quatuor sunt exercitus iuniorum deorum. Primus habitat a primo coelo usque ad principium aeris; secundus inde usque ad dimidium aeris. Terti
• 24.37 Cuilibet istorum proportionaliter correspondet quadruplex exercitus Angelorum, Demonum, et Animarum.