Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, Robert Gregg Bury (Translator), 1.14.108

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[108] Love and hatred are a cause, as when some have an extreme aversion to pork while others greatly enjoy eating it. Hence, too, Menander said:¹

Mark now his visage, what a change is there

Since he has come to this! How bestial!

'Tis actions fair that make the fairest face.

Many lovers, too, who have ugly mistresses think them most beautiful.²

Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes. Sextus Empiricus. Robert Gregg Bury (Translator). London. 1933.

Funding provided by Tisch Library, Tufts University.

Current edition First1KGreek

Outlines of Pyrrhonism (English) (Sextus Empiricus, Vol. 1. Bury, Robert Gregg, translator. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933.)

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Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes First1KGreek (Sextus Empiricus. Sexti Empiricii Opera, Volume 1. Mutschmann, Hermann, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1912.) — 1.14.108 focus

[108] παρὰ δὲ τὸ φιλεῖν ἤ μισεῖν, ὅτι κρέα ὕεια τινὲς μὲν ἀποστρέφονται καθ’ ὑπερβολήν, τινὲς δὲ
ἥδιστα προσφέρονται. ὅθεν καὶ ὁ Μένανδρος (fr. 518 Kock cf. Nauck Mel. gr. VI 120 Cobet N. L. p. 85.) ἔφη

οἶος δὲ καὶ τὴν ὄψιν εἶναι φαίνεται;

ἀφ’ οὗ τοιοῦτος γέγονεν; οἶον θηρίον.

τὸ μηδὲν ἀδικεῖν καὶ καλοὺς ἡμᾶς ποιεῖ.

πολλοὶ <δὲ> καὶ ἐρωμένας αἰσχρὰς ἔχοντες ὡραιοτάτας αὐτὰς εἷναι δοκοῦσιν.

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

1. Fragm. 518 (Kock). It is supposed that these lines were spoken by a maiden of her lover who had fallen into evil ways.

2. Cf. Horace, Sat. i. 3. 38.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 1.14.108

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