Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, Robert Gregg Bury (Translator), 2.22.239

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[239] Again, in the case of one who suffers from fever due to aggravated ‟contraction” or obstruction, if an argument is propounded in the form—‟Opposites are cures of opposites;¹ cold is the opposite of the present feverish condition; therefore cold is the treatment which corresponds to the present feverish condition,”—here again the dialectician will keep silence,

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.) — 2.22.239 focus

[239] πάλιν τε ἐπί τινος πυρέσσοντος κατὰ πύκνωσιν ἐπιτεταμένην ἐρωτηθέντος τοῦ τοιούτου λόγου ‘τὰ ἐναντία τῶν ἐναντίων ἰάματά ἐστιν· ἐναντίον δὲ τῇ ὑποκειμένῃ πυρώσει
τὸ ψυχρόν· κατάλληλον ἄρα τῇ ὑποκειμένῃ πυρώσει τὸ ψυχρόν’ ὁ μὲν διαλεκτικὸς ἡσυχάσει, ὁ δὲ ἰατρός,

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

1. Cf. Hippocrates, De. flat. 2; for morbid ‟contraction” counteracted by ‟dilatation” or ‟relaxation” cf. i. 238. By ‟corresponding” is meant the appropriate ‟counteracting” remedy. The ‟persistent” or ‟deep-seated” ( προσεχῆ) morbid states are distinguished from the superficial ‟symptoms” which the Methodic School disregarded as accidentals.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.22.239

Robert Gregg Bury (Translator)

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