Plato · thesis 5>1

Thesis 5>1

Latin

Per numeros triplares, qui a Platone in Timeo ponuntur in triangulo animam significante, admonemur quousque in formis numerandis sit progrediendum per naturam illius quod est prima forma formans. Per numeros uero duplares ibidem positos, admonemur quatenus, positis duobus extremis terminis, coordinanda sunt media per naturam eius, quod est medium in uniuerso.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 22141

English

By the numbers in triple proportion which Plato sets out in the Timaeus, in the triangle signifying the soul, we are warned how far one must proceed in numbering forms, following the nature of that which is the first form giving form to others. By the numbers in double proportion set out in the same place, we are warned that, once the two outer terms are fixed, the middle terms must be arranged according to the nature of that which is the middle term of the universe.

Farmer (farmer1998:22177) renders 'triplares'/'duplares' as 'cubic'/'square' numbers; I keep the proportional sense (triple/double proportion) of the Timaeus number series instead.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:22177; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 5>, conclusions on the doctrine of Plato) · Pico's stance: endorses

Discussed in

• Giulio Busi and Raphael Ebgi, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Mito, magia, Qabbalah (2014)

Mention records in the corpus: 1 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 3>39 Dictum illud mirabile illius barbari, nympharum et demonum consortis, de .clxxxiiii. mundis in figura triangulari cum tribus unitatibus angu