Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 1.14.47

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[47] φαντασίας αὐτοῖς γίνεσθαι. ὅταν τε παραθλίψωμεν τὸν ὀφθαλμόν, ἐπιμήκη καὶ στενὰ φαίνεται τὰ εἴδη καὶ
τὰ σχήματα καὶ τὰ μεγέθη τῶν ὁρατῶν. εἰκὸς οὖν ὅτι ὅσα τῶν ζῴων λοξὴν ἔχει τὴν κόρην καὶ προμήκη, καθάπερ αἶγες αἴλουροι καὶ τὰ ἐοικότα, διάφορα φαντάζεται τὰ ὑποκείμενα εἶναι, καὶ οὐχ οἵα τὰ περιφερῆ τὴν κόρην ἔχοντα ζῷα εἶναι αὐτὰ ὑπολαμβάνει.

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.) — 1.14.47 focus

[47] Again, when we press the eyeball at one side the forms, figures and sizes of the objects appear oblong and narrow. So it is probable that all animals which have the pupil of the eye slanting and elongated— such as goats, cats, and similar animals—have impressions of the objects which are different and unlike the notions formed of them by the animals which have round pupils.

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