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Plato · thesis 5>5

Thesis 5>5

Latin

Empedocles per spheram intelligibilem a Venere contentam, nihil aliud intelligit quam mundum archetipum ab ordine intra se manentis primae prouidentiae contentum.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 22229

English

By the intelligible sphere held together by Venus, Empedocles means nothing other than the archetypal world, held together by the order of a first providence that remains within itself.

Sense checked against farmer1998:22293; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:22293; awaiting human check

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

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