Plato · thesis 5>11

Thesis 5>11

Latin

Primus septennarius uitae humanae est sub Mercurio, secundus sub Venere, tertius sub Marte, quartus sub Ioue, quintus sub Saturno, et reliqui septennarii secundum eum qui fuerit praedominatus in praecedentibus.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 22344

English

The first seven-year span of human life falls under Mercury, the second under Venus, the third under Mars, the fourth under Jove, the fifth under Saturn, and the remaining seven-year spans follow whichever planet has predominated in the ones before.

Sense checked against farmer1998:22396; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:22396; 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)
• (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: 2 (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>12 Predictis uitis cooperantur Sol et Luna ut causae uniuersales_et per appropriationem: Luna_Mercurio_et Saturno, Sol Veneri et Marti, simul u
• 5>9 Platonice loquendo de anima, dico animam uiuere cum Saturno uitam contemplatiuam, cum Ioue politicam et practicam, cum Marte irascibilem et