Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 1.14.86

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[86] δεόντως οὖν καὶ οἱ ποιηταὶ περὶ τούτων ἀπεφήναντο· ὁ μὲν γὰρ
Πίνδαρός φησιν (fr. 242 Boeckh, 221 Schroed.)

ἀελλοπόδων μέν τιν’ εὐφραίνουσιν ἱππὼν

τιμαί <τε> καὶ στέφανοι,

τοὺς δ’ ἐν πολυχρύσοις θαλάμοις βιοτά·

τέρπεται δὲ καί τις ἐπ’ οἶδμ’ ἅλιον

ναὶ· θοᾷ διαμείβων.

² 20 ὁ δὲ ποιητὴς λέγει (ξ 228) ³

ἄλλος γάρ τ’ ἄλλοισιν ἀνὴρ ἐπιτέρπεται ἔργοις.

ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡ τραγῳδία μεστὴ τῶν τοιούτων ἐστί· λέγει γοῦν (Eurip. Phoen. 499)

εἰ πᾶσι ταὐτὸν καλὸν ἔφυ σοφόν θ’ ἅμα,

οὐκ ἦν ἂν ἀμφίλεκτος ἀνθρώποις ἔρις,

καὶ πάλιν (Fragm. Trag. adesp. 462 Nauck)

δεινόν γε ταὐτὸν τοῖς μὲν ἁνδάνειν βροτῶν

τοῖς δ’ ἔχθος εἶναι.

ἐπεὶ οὖν ἡ αἵρεσις καὶ ἡ φυγὴ ἐν ἡδονῇ

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.)

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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.) — 1.14.86 focus

[86] Regarding this the poets, too, have expressed themselves fittingly. Thus Pindar says:¹

The crowns and trophies of his storm-foot steeds

Give joy to one ; yet others find it joy

To dwell in gorgeous chambers gold-bedeckt;

Some even take delight in voyaging

O’er ocean’s billows in a speeding barque.

And the poet² says: ‟One thing is pleasing to one man, another thing to another.” Tragedy, too, is full of such sayings; for example:

Were fair and wise the same thing unto all,

There had been no contentious quarrelling.³

And again:

'Tis strange that the same thing abhorr’d by some

Should give delight to others.⁴

Notes on the current edition

Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 29 a

2. 2 ἄνω κάτω ab Apeltio olim deletum omisit T (non leduntur a crocodilUs) 3 Ἀστάπουν olim ab Herchero inventum praeb. T (astapum): ὑδάσπην G edd. 7 χύσερμος EAB: chrisormus Τ 8 καὶ om. T 11 ποταμόν M 13 ᾧ T (cui videbatur) cf. Aristot. l..: ὧς Paris. suppl. 133: ὃς G
τῶν om. M 27 τε add. Schroeder 28 βιοτά L: βιωτά M: βιωταῖς EAB 29 οἶδμα G 29 (??) θοὰ LMT (naui ueloci): θοσῶν EAB: θοᾷ σῶν Gen. : θοᾷ σῶς Fabr. || διαμείβων Maas: διαστείβων G: pergens T

3. 29b

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