Pico della Mirandola, Conclusiones (1486) SectionsThe thirteen condemnedScholarshipMethod

Zoroaster and Chaldeans · thesis 8>12

Thesis 8>12

Latin

Per Syrenam apud Zoroastrem nihil aliud intelligas quam partem animae rationalem.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 24956

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 intrlligas

1486 misprints 'intrlligas' for 'intelligas' (farmer1998:24966).

English

In Zoroaster, the Siren stands for the rational part of the soul, and nothing else.

Sense checked against farmer1998:25007; no divergence.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T09b; sense checked against farmer1998:25007; awaiting human check

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

Discussed in

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

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