Orphic Church Library ASCLEPIVS

Outline

The Asclepius outlined whole: the one idea the work sets for itself, divided where the text divides it, and the dialogue divided from the whole down to its parts, movements, passages, steps and verses, each verse said in the terms the argument turns on.

Beneath every head stand the Latin words it begins and ends with. Every relation rests on the words that ground it, underlined in place; select a word, an address or a verse range to read the text there. Each claim of the outline is tested if it holds and if it is denied, and the whole is stated again at the end.

How to read the marks

I · A · 1 · a
The dialogue divided: parts (I), movements (A), passages (1), steps (a), then verses. Each head says what it holds, and beneath it in italic stand the Latin words it begins and ends with. Select its verses (such as 1:1–1:6) to read them in the teaching edition, its numeral to fold it. The buttons above the dialogue choose how deep to open it.
The idea divided, at the left: the One that is all, divided where the text divides it, each division citing the words that divide it, shown beneath it in italic; select its address to read them in the teaching edition. It stays in view while you read.
An order of dependence, highest at the top: the seven bands at the left, each in its colour. The divisions of the idea sit in the band of their order, indented by how deep they divide.
Between two orders: what the text names standing between them (solid), or none named, the search recorded (dashed).
The one gift with no middle: intelligence, from God straight to man, drawn down the side.
The orders a passage speaks, after its head: filled for each order its verses touch.
soul
A term, at the foot of the division. Bright when the passage in view speaks it; click to mark every verse that does.
amantes
Underlined Latin: the words a relation rests on. Hover a relation to light its own words.
5:5·10-14
An address: verse, then the first and last word. Click to read the words in the teaching edition.
edition
The teaching edition is the reader: click a Latin word, a relation, an address or a verse range and it opens beside the outline at the loci those words fall in, with the construe, the translations and each translator's choice there.
exposition/…
A semantic address after every head: click to copy it, to cite the place exactly.

Try it

The object

The one idea the work sets down for itself, in its own words, before anything is divided.

The two orders

Held still beside the dialogue (above it on a narrow screen): the one idea divided, down to its terms. Beside it: the dialogue divided from the whole down to its steps and verses, each verse said in the outline's language. Click any Latin word, relation, address or verse range and the teaching edition opens beside it at those words. As you read down, the division lights what the passage in view speaks.

The examination

Each claim the outline makes, traced through the text if it holds and if it is denied. Holds: denying it contradicts the text. Holds with a tension: the text also says something the claim must carry beside it. Open: the text leaves it undecided, and the outline keeps it so.

The models the work draws

Each analogy the text itself makes: what each term does in it, how they relate as one, and the words that make it.

The whole again

7 sentences stating the whole, each composed only of relations above; open one to see what it rests on.