Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 1.14.157

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[157] μυθικὴν δὲ πίστιν ἀγωγῇ ἀντιτίθεμεν, ἐπειδὰν λέγωμεν ὅτι οἱ μὲν μῦθοι παρὰ τῇ Ὀμφάλῃ τὸν Ἡρακλέα λέγουσιν (ξ 423)

εἴριά τε ξαίνειν καὶ δουλοσύνης ἀνέχεσθαι

καὶ ταῦτα ποιῆσαι ἅπερ οὐδ’ ἂν μετρίως προῃρημένος ἐποίησεν ἄν τις, ἡ δὲ ἀγωγὴ τοῦ βίου τοῦ Ἡρακλέους ἦν γενναία.

Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes. Sextus Empiricus. ed. Hermann Mutschmann. Germany. 2014.

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

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism First1KGreek (Sextus Empiricus, Vol. 1. Bury, Robert Gregg, translator. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933.) — 1.14.157 focus

[157] And we oppose legendary belief to rule of conduct when we say that the legends relate that Heracles in the house of Omphale ‟toiled at the spinning of wool, enduring slavery's burden,”¹ and did things which no one would have chosen to do even in a moderate degree, whereas the rule of life of Heracles was a noble one.

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