Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 1.19.188

[188] This expression, then, we sometimes enunciate in the form I have stated but sometimes in the form ‟Nowise more.” For we do not, as some suppose, adopt the form ‟Not more” in specific inquiries and ‟Nowise more” in generic inquiries, but we enunciate both ‟Not more” and ‟Nowise more” indifferently, and we shall discuss them now as identical expressions. This expression, then, is elliptical. For just as when we say ‟a double” we are implicitly saying ‟a double hearth,” ¹ and when we say ‟a square” we are implicitly saying ‟a square road- way,” so when we say ‟Not more” we are implicitly saying ‟Not this more than that, up than down.”