Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, Robert Gregg Bury (Translator), 3.24.225

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[225] Yet, amongst others, these things are indifferent. Eating dog’s flesh, too, is thought by us to be sinful, but some of the Thracians are reported to be dog-eaters. Possibly this practice was customary also amongst the Greeks; and on this account Diocles, too, starting from the practices of the Asclepiadae,¹ prescribes that hounds’ flesh should be given to certain patients. And some, as I have said,² even eat human flesh indifferently, a thing which with us is accounted sinful.

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.) — 3.24.225 focus

[225] κυνείων τε γεύσασθαι δοκοῦμεν ἡμεῖς ἀνίερον εἶναι, Θρᾳκῶν δὲ ἔνιοι κυνοφαγεῖν
ἱστοροῦνται. ἴσως δὲ καὶ παρ’ Ἕλλησι τοῦτο ἦν σύνηθες· διόπερ καὶ Διοκλῆς ἀπὸ τῶν κατὰ τοὺς Ἀσκληπιάδας ὁρμώμενος τισὶ τῶν πασχόντων σκυλάκεια δίδοσθαι κελεύει κρέα. τινὲς δὲ καὶ ἀνθρώπων σάρκας, ὧς ἔφην, ἀδιαφόρως ἐσθίουσιν, ὅπερ ἀνίερον παρ’ ἡμῖν εἶναι νενόμι- ¹ 174 ’σται.

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

1. The earliest Greek medical guild; Diocles was a famous physician of the fourth century b.c.

2. § 207 supra.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.24.225

Robert Gregg Bury (Translator)

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