Plato · thesis 5>21

Thesis 5>21

Latin

Cum dicit Plato Amorem natum ex congressu Peniae et Pori in ortis louis, in natalibus Veneris, diis discumbentibus, nihil aliud intelligit quam in angeli mente tunc primum amorem, id est desiderium pulchritudinis, esse natum cum in eo idearum splendor, imperfectius tamen, refulxit.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 22547

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 discmnbentibus

1486 print reads 'discmnbentibus' for 'discumbentibus' (farmer1998:22572).

English

When Plato says that Love was born from the union of Poverty and Plenty in the gardens of Jove, at the birthday feast of Venus, with the gods reclining at table, he means nothing other than that love—that is, the desire for beauty—was then first born in the angelic mind, when the splendor of the ideas, though still imperfectly, first shone forth in it.

Sense checked against farmer1998:22599; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:22599; awaiting human check

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

Discussed in

• Sophia Howlett, Re-evaluating Pico: Aristotelianism, Kabbalism, and Platonism in the Philosophy of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (2021)

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 5>22 Amor de quo in Symposio loquitur Plato, in deo nullo modo esse potest.