Plato · thesis 5>39

Thesis 5>39

Latin

Tempus habet ab anima suum esse participatum: a prima quidem anima per modum effectiuae causalitatis, ab ultima uero per modum obiectiuae consecutionis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 22867

Apparatus (Farmer): colon retained from 1486 edition

The sheet's Latin breaks off mid-word at the line-end hyphen ('con-'); completed here as 'consecutionis' from the source text (farmer1998:22867-22870).

English

Time owes its participated being to the soul—to the first soul, which gives it being as an effective cause, and to the last soul, which yields it as an object that follows from the soul's activity.

Sense checked against farmer1998:22927; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:22927; awaiting human check

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