Zoroaster and Chaldeans · thesis 8>5

Thesis 8>5

Latin

Ex dicto illo Zoroastris: Ha ha, hos terra deflet usque ad filios, sequendo expositionem Oziae chaldei, expressam habemus ueritatem de peccato originali.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 24837

'Oziae chaldei' kept as printed; Farmer's note identifies the name as 'Hosea the Chaldean' (farmer1998:24873).

English

In Zoroaster's saying, 'Ha, ha, the earth weeps for them, even to her sons,' read through Hosea the Chaldean's exposition, we possess the plain truth about the sin of our first parents.

Sense checked against farmer1998:24894; no divergence.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T09b; sense checked against farmer1998:24894; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 8>, on the understanding of Zoroaster and his Chaldean expositors) · Pico's stance: endorses

Farmer's cross-references

• 8>3 Quod dicunt interpretes super dictum secundum Zoroastris, de duplici aere, aqua, et terra, nihil aliud sibi uult nisi quodlibet elementum qu