Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, Robert Gregg Bury (Translator), 1.14.119

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[119] These effects are due to distances; among effects due to locations are the following: the light of a lamp appears dim in the sun but bright in the dark; and the same oar bent when in the water but straight when out of the water; and the egg soft when inside the fowl but hard when in the air; and the jacinth¹ fluid when in the lynx but hard when in the air; and the coral soft when in the sea but hard when in the air’; and sound seems to differ in quality according as it is produced in a pipe, or in a flute, or simply in the air.

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

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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.) — 1.14.119 focus

[119] ταῦτα μὲν παρὰ τὰ διαστήματα, παρὰ δὲ τούς τόπους ὅτι τὸ λυχνιαῖον φῶς ἐν
ἡλίῳ μὲν ἀμαυρὸν φαίνεται ἐν σκότῳ δὲ λαμπρόν, καὶ ἡ αὐτὴ κώπη ἔναλος μὲν κεκλασμένη ἔξαλος δὲ εὐθεῖα, καὶ τὸ ᾠὸν ἐν μὲν τῇ ὄρνιθι ἁπαλὸν ἐν ἀέρι δὲ σκληρόν, καὶ τὸ λυγγούριον ἐν μὲν λυγγὶ ὑγρὸν ἐν ἀέρι δὲ σκληρόν, καὶ ¹² 28 τὸ κοράλον ἐν θαλάττῃ μὲν ἁπαλὸν ἐν ἀέρι δὲ σκληρόν, καὶ φωνὴ ἀλλοία μὲν φαίνεται ἐν σύριγγι γινομένη, ἀλλοία
δὲ ἐν αὐλῷ, ἀλλοία δὲ ἐν ἀέρι ἁπλῶς.

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

1. ‟Lyngurion,” so called from the belief that the stone was made of the urine of the lynx frozen or crystallized.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 1.14.119

Robert Gregg Bury (Translator)

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