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However, one revolution of Jupiter accords with others or many revolutions accord (and similarly of Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon). Īnd a half, or two, three, or four revolutions) accords with some things, according to the property of their own nature (whether that of the species or that of the individual). 1413.2) 'Marsilii Ficini Florentini Platonici Expositio De Numero Fatali' in M ( fol.

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Aliis enim pro ipsa naturae suae vel specialis vel singularis proprietate convenit una Saturni revolutio vel insuper dimidia vel Vita igitur et fertilitas et opposita in rebus terrenis per caelestia mensurantur, sed ea lege ut aliae species plantarum vel animalium aliis subiiciantur mensuris atque ducantur. Ipsae quoque revolutiones terrenis conversiones accommodant atque coaptant. Revolutiones ambitusve eiusmodi a conversionibus illis reguntur quidem, ac rebus terrenis accommodantur. Vocat praeterea periphoras, id est, revolutiones vel ambitus, ipsos circuitus quos planetae omnes insuper agunt ab ortu ad occasum rursusque ad ortum vel vicissim item a meridie ad septentrionem atque contra, rursus ante et retro, sursum atque deorsum, sive vicissim. Appellat deinde peritropas, id est, conversiones, motus simpliciter circulares quos sphaerae caelestes et stellae quaelibet quasi fixae peragunt circa propria centra. Principio ciclos, id est, circos vel circulos, nominat substantias ipsas mundanarum sphaerarum, praecipue vero caelestium. De Circulis, Conversionibus, Revolutionibus, et Qua Opportunitate a Superioribus Inferiora Ducantur. Nam et ipse Plato quaedam noluit explicari, sermonem vero hominibus inexplicabilem merito Musis attribuit, sed ludentibus, quia later aliquid fabulosum. Sed quae diu cogitanti mihi certiora succurrunt imprimis adducam denique probabilia subdam, inexplicabilia praetermittam. Expositio Marsilii Ficini Circa Numerum Nuptialem in VIII de Re Publica.Īenigmata in capite praecedenti prodigiosa iamdiu ab explicationis studio nos et Platonicos alios absterruerunt. ― 173 ― Commentarius in Locum Platonis Ex Octavo Libro de Re Publica de Mutatione Rei Publicae per Numerum Fatalem Thus life and fertility and opposites among things earthly are measured by way of things heavenly, but according to the law that declares that particular species of plants or animals are subjected to and guided by particular measures. The planetary revolutions also accord with and fit the spherical conversions to things earthly. Such planetary revolutions or ambits are ruled by the spherical conversions and accord with things earthly. Moreover, the circuits, which all the planets enact in addition from east to west and back to the east or in alternation, and likewise from south to north and the reverse, again forwards and backwards, upwards and downwards-these he calls 'periphorai,' that is, revolutions or ambits. Then he calls the absolutely circular motions, which the celestial spheres and any of the fixed stars as it were complete around their own centers, 'peritropai,' that is, conversions. On Circles, Conversions, Revolutions and by What Opportunity the Lower May Be Led by the Higher.Īt the onset he names the substances themselves of the world spheres (but principally of the celestial spheres) 'ciclos,' that is, circles or rings. Indeed, discourse inexplicable to men deservedly he attributed to the Muses, but to the Muses at play, for there is something in a fable which is hidden from us. For Plato himself did not wish certain enigmas to be unfolded. Eventually, I will append those I can very probably explain and ignore those that I cannot. The enigmas I will deal with first, however, are those that have struck me, having thought about it for a long time, as very certainly interpretable.

The Exposition of Marsilio Ficino Concerning the Nuptial Number in Book 8 of the Republicįor a long time the prodigious enigmas in the preceding chapter have terrified us and other Platonists from devoting ourselves to their explication.

― 172 ― The Commentary on Plato's Passage from the Eighth Book of the Republic Concerning the Republic's Mutation through the Fatal Number

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