Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 1.33.221

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[221] ἀρξάμενοι τοίνυν ἀπὸ τῆς ἀρχαίας ἴδωμεν τὴν <πρὸς ἡμᾶς> διαφορὰν διαφορὰν τῶν εἰρημένων φιλοσοφιῶν.
τὸν Πλάτωνα οὖν οἱ μὲν δογματικὸν ἔφασαν εἶναι, οἱ δὲ ἀπορητικόν, οἱ δὲ κατὰ μέν τι ἀπορη- τικόν, κατὰ δέ τι δογματικόν· ἐν μὲν γὰρ τοῖς γυμναστικοῖς [φασι] λόγοις, ἔνθα ὁ Σωκράτης εἰσάγεται ἤτοι παίζων πρός τινας ἢ ἀγωνιζόμενος πρὸς σοφιστάς,
γυμναστικόν τε καὶ ἀπορητικόν φασιν ἔχειν αὐτὸν χαρακτῆρα, δογματικὸν δέ, ἔνθα σπουδάζων ἀποφαίνεται ἤτοι διὰ Σωκράτους ἢ Τιμαίου ἤ τινος τῶν τοιούτων.

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.) — 1.33.221 focus

[221] Beginning, then, with the Old Academy let us consider how the philosophies mentioned differ from ours.

Plato has been described by some as ‟dogmatic,” by others as ‟dubitative,” and by others again as partly dogmatic and partly dubitative. For in his exercitatory discourses,¹ where Socrates is introduced either as talking playfully with his auditors or as arguing against sophists, he shows, they say, an exercitatory and dubitative character; but a dogmatic character when he is speaking seriously by the mouth either of Socrates or of Timaeus or of some similar personage.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 1.33.221

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