Plato · thesis 5>12

Thesis 5>12

Latin

Predictis uitis cooperantur Sol et Luna ut causae uniuersales et per appropriationem: Luna Mercurio et Saturno, Sol Veneri et Marti, simul uterque Ioui.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 22349

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 appropnationem.Luna:Mercuno:&Saturno.Sol:Venen & Marti.Simul uterque Ioui.

The sheet's OCR transcription used underscores in place of spaces ('uniuersales_et', 'Luna_Mercurio_et'); silently normalised here. Cf. the 1486 print's punctuation with colons, 'Luna:Mercuno:&Saturno.Sol:Venen & Marti' (farmer1998:22365).

English

To the aforesaid lives, the Sun and Moon lend their cooperation as universal causes, and also by appropriation: the Moon to Mercury and Saturn, the Sun to Venus and Mars, and both of them together to Jove.

Sense checked against farmer1998:22401; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:22401; 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: 4 (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>9 Platonice loquendo de anima, dico animam uiuere cum Saturno uitam contemplatiuam, cum Ioue politicam et practicam, cum Marte irascibilem et