Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 1.19.189

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[189] ἄνω κάτω.’ τινὲς μέντοι τῶν σκεπτικῶν παραλαμβάνουσιν ἀντὶ πὐσματοςτὸ ῾οὐ᾿ (<ἀντὶ>τοῦ τί μᾶλλον τόδε ἢ τόδε, τὸ ¹ 42
τί παραλαμβάνοντες νῦν ἀντὶ αἰτίας), ἴν’ ᾖ τὸ λεγόμενον ‘διὰ τί μᾶλλον τόδε ἢ τόδε;’ σύνηθες δέ ἐστι καὶ πύσμασιν ἀντὶ ἀξιωμάτων χρῆσθαι, οἷον (Eur. Herc. fr. 1)

τίς τὸν Δῖός σύλλεκτρον οὐκ οἶδε βροτῶν;

καὶ ἀξιώμασιν ἀντὶ πυσμάτων, οἷον ‘ζητῶ ποῦ οἰκεῖ Δίων’
καὶ ‘πυνθάνομαι τίνος ἕνεκα χρὴ θαυμάζειν ἄνδρα ποιητήν.᾿ ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ τί ἀντὶ τοῦ διὰ <τί> παραλαμβάνεται παρὰ Μενάνδρῳ· (fr. 900 Kock.)

τί γὰρ ἐγὼ κατελειπόμην;

δηλοῖ δὲ τὸ ‘οὐ μᾶλλον τόδε ἢ τόδε᾿ καὶ πάθος ἡμέτερον,

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.) — 1.19.189 focus

[189] Some of the Sceptics, however, in place of the ‟Not” adopt the form ”(For) what this more than that,” taking the ‟what” to denote, in this case, cause, so that the meaning is ‟For what reason this more than that?”¹ And it is a common practice to use questions instead of assertions, as for example—‟The bride of Zeus, what mortal knows her not?”² And also assertions in the place of questions; for instance —‟I am inquiring where Dion lives,” and ‟I ask you what reason there is for showing surprise at a poet.” And further, the use of ‟What” instead of ‟For what reason” is found in Menander,³ ‟(For) what was I left behind?”

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 12 et 16 λαμβάνειν EAB 15 εἰσάξει Kayser 19 τούτων τε om. EAB || τῶν om. Μ 20 <τινες> φωνάς τινας EAB 24 δὲ om. L 32 διπλῆ δυνάμει L: δυνάμει διπλῆ EAB: duplicem potentiam T || δυνάμει φαμὲν om. M || ἑστία G: domum Τ (fort. οἰκία cf. Lys. I 9): ἐσθὴς Fabr. : ἀπερίστικτος vel ἄστικτος Pappenheim 1 πλατεῖα et πλατεῖα ὁδός Diels: πλατεῖαν et πλατεῖαν ὁδόν GT (latam et viam latam) 4 τὸ οὐ Paris. SuppL 133: τοῦ οὐ G: pro inter- rogatione et non pro quid hoc quam hoc Τ Ι <ἀντὶ> τοῦ ego: τὸ G ΙΙ locus non integer: ἀντὶ ἀξιώματος τοῦ ὁὐ μᾶλλον᾿ πύσμα τὸ ‘τί μᾶλλον᾿ , οἷον τί μᾶλλον τόδε ἢ τόδε Bekk.: ἀντὶ τοῦ ‘διὰ τί᾿ πύσματος τὸ ‘τί μᾶλλον τόδε ἢ τόδε᾿ Kayser 7 ἀντὶ om. EAB 11 τί add. T (propter quid) 16 ἰσοσθένειαν Tsnp-penheim: ἰσότητα GT 16/17 ἰσότητα τὴν add. Pappenh. 17 πιθανὸν <καὶ ἀπίθανόν ἐσότητα> E. Weber 19 γοῦν Gen.: οὖν LEAB: om. Μ: igitur T || ἐμφαίνῃ MET (licet ostendat): ἐμφαίνει LAB 23/24 συγκ. om. T 24 γὰρ add T. (propositum est enim nohis) 29 fort. περὶ ταύτης?

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 1.19.189

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