Amor de quo Plotinus loquitur non est coelestis amor de quo Plato in Symposio, sed illius uera et proxima imago.
Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 22561
English
What Plotinus calls love is not the same as the celestial love Plato describes in the Symposium; rather, it is a true image of that love, and the closest one there is.
Sense checked against farmer1998:22614; no further crux.
Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:22614; awaiting human check
Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 5>, conclusions on the doctrine of Plato) · Pico's stance: endorses
Farmer's cross-references
5>1Per numeros triplares, qui a Platone in Timeo ponuntur in triangulo animam significante, admonemur quousque in formis numerandis sit progred
5>25Pugnantia quae uidetur in dictis Orphei et Agathonis, quorum alter amorem antiquiorem omnibus diis dicit, alter iuniorem, perfecte soluemus