Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 1.14.45

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[45] ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐνατενίσαντες ἐπὶ πολύν χρόνον τῷ ἡλίῳ , εἶτα ἐγκύψαντες βιβλίῳ τὰ γράμματα χρυσοειδῆ δοκοῦμεν εἶναι καὶ περιφερόμενα. ἐπεὶ οὖν καὶ τῶν ζῴων τινὰ φύσει λαμπηδόνα ἐν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς ἔχει ¹ 12
καὶ φῶς λεπτομερές τε καὶ εὐκίνητον ἀπ’ αὐτῶν ἀποστέλλει, ὡς καὶ νυκτὸς ὁρᾶν, δεόντως ἂν νομίζοιμεν ὅτι μὴ ὅμοια ἡμῖν τε κἀκείνοις τὰ ἐκτὸς ὑποπίπτει.

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.) — 1.14.45 focus

[45] Moreover, if we bend down over a book after having gazed long and fixedly at the sun, the letters seem to us to be golden in colour and circling round. Since, then, some animals possess also a natural brilliance in their eyes, and emit from them a fine and mobile stream of light, so that they can even see by night,¹ we seem bound to suppose that they are differently affected from us by external objects.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 15 ἀπὸ τῶν αὐτῶν om.T 18 ὀνομάτων EAB 19 et 20 μίξεων M 21 ζωΰφια Bekker: animaliaparvulaT: ζωόφθτα G 23 lac. stat. Fabr. addens ὡς μῦς 26 οἱ om. Μ 28 μὲν <ὡς> EAB 5/6 seclusi ut glossema ad p. 11, 14 7 καὶ ὑπόφασμα EAB 14 λάμπ’. ἐν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῦ ἔχει LE (sic): ἐν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς λ. ἔχει AB: λ. ἔχει ἐν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς M

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 1.14.45

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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