Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 1.14.57

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[57] τὸ γοῦν κώνειον νεῖον πιαίνει τοὺς ὄρτυγας καὶ ὁ ὑοσκύαμος τὰς ὗς, αἵ
δὴ χαίρουσι καὶ σαλαμάνδρας ἐσθίουσαι, ὡσπεροῦν ἔλαφοι τὰ ἰοβόλα ζῷα καὶ αἱ χελιδόνες κανθαρίδας. οἴ τε μύρμηκες καὶ οἱ σκνῖπες ἀνθρώποις μὲν ἀηδίας καὶ στρόφους ἐμποιοῦσι καταπινόμενοι· ἡ δὲ ἄρκτος ἢν ἀρρωστίᾳ τινὶ περιπέσῃ, τούτους καταλιχμωμένη ῥώννυται.

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.) — 1.14.57 focus

[57] Thus, quails are fattened by hemlock, and pigs by henbane; and pigs also enjoy eating salamanders, just as deer enjoy poisonous creatures, and swallows gnats. So ants and wood-lice, when swallowed by men, cause distress and gripings, whereas the bear, whenever she falls sick, cures herself by licking them up.

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