Plato · thesis 5>9

Thesis 5>9

Latin

Platonice loquendo de anima, dico animam uiuere cum Saturno uitam contemplatiuam, cum Ioue politicam et practicam, cum Marte irascibilem et ambitiosam, cum Venere concupiscibilem et uoluptuosam, cum Mercurio uegetalem cum stupido sensu.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 22335

English

Speaking as a Platonist about the soul, I say that with Saturn it lives the contemplative life, with Jupiter the civic and active life, with Mars the irascible and ambitious life, with Venus the concupiscible and pleasure-loving life, and with Mercury the vegetative life, its sense dulled.

Sense checked against farmer1998:22386; no further crux. 'irascibilem' and 'concupiscibilem' kept as the standard scholastic terms.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:22386; awaiting human check; re-rendered 2026-09-27 by TRANSLATOR-FIX (D-13)

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)
• (from file name), [Medieval and early modern science] Broecke Vanden - The Limits of Influence_ Pico, Louvain, and the Crisis of Renaissance Astrology (2003, (n.d.)

Mention records in the corpus: 7 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 22.4 Omnis anima participans uulcanio intellectu seminatur in lunam.
• 5>10 Ex precedenti conclusione habetur quae sit uirga Mercurii soporifera.
• 5>11 Primus septennarius uitae humanae est sub Mercurio, secundus sub Venere, tertius sub Marte, quartus sub Ioue, quintus sub Saturno, et reliqu
• 5>12 Predictis uitis cooperantur Sol et Luna ut causae uniuersales_et per appropriationem: Luna_Mercurio_et Saturno, Sol Veneri et Marti, simul u