Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 1.14.48

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[48] τά τε κάτοπτρα παρὰ
τὴν διάφορον κατασκευὴν ὁτὲ μὲν μικρότατα δείκνυσι τὰ ἐκτὸς ὑποκείμενα ὧς τὰ κοῖλα, ὁτὲ δ’ ἐπιμήκη καὶ στενά ὡς τὰ κυρτά· τινὰ δὲ τὴν μὲν κεφαλὴν κάτω δείκνυσι τοῦ κατοπτριζομένου , τοὺς δὲ πόδας ἄνω.

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.) — 1.14.48 focus

[48] Mirrors, too, owing to differences in their construction, represent the external objects¹ at one time as very small—as when the mirror is concave, —at another time as elongated and narrow—as when the mirror is convex. Some mirrors, too, show the head of the figure reflected at the bottom and the feet at the top.

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