Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 1.14.162

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

View: By Chapter

← Previous Next →

[162]
ὅτι Ζεὺς διὰ τὸ πένθος τὸ ἐπὶ Σαρπηδόνι αἱματοέσσας ωεκάδας κατέχευεν ἔραζε (Π 459), δόγμα μέντοι φιλοσόφων <ᾖ> ἀπαθὲς εἶναι τὸ θεῖον, καὶ ὅταν <. . . . . > τὸν τῶν ἱπποκενταύρων μῦθον ἀναιρῶσιν, ἀνυπαρξίας παράδειγμα τὸν ἱπποκένταυρον ἡμῖν φέροντες.

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

Current edition First1KGreek

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

Translations (1)

Outlines of Pyrrhonism First1KGreek (Sextus Empiricus, Vol. 1. Bury, Robert Gregg, translator. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933.) — 1.14.162 focus

[162] and again, when the poet relates¹ that because of his grief for Sarpedon Zeus ‟let fall upon the earth great gouts of blood,” whereas it is a dogma of the philosophers that the Deity is impassive; and when these same philosophers demolish the legend of the hippocentaurs, and offer us the hippocentaur as a type of unreality.²

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

Search the Perseus Catalog for:

Current edition First1KGreek

Stable identifiers