Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 1.33.224

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[224] ἐν πολλοῖς γὰρ αὐτὸν ἐπαινέας [τὸν Ξενοφάνην], ὧς καὶ τοὺς σίλλους αὐτῷ ἀναθεῖναι, ἐποίησεν αὐτὸν ὀδυρόμενον καὶ λέγοντα

ὡς καὶ ἐγὼν ὄφελον πυκινοῦ νόου ἀντιβολῆσαι

ἀμφοτερόβλεπτος· δολίῃ δ’ ὁδῷ ἐξαπατήθην

πρεσβυγενὴς ἔτ’ ἐὼν καὶ ἀμενθήριατος ἀπάσης

σκεπτοσύνης. ὅππῃ γὰρ ἐμὸν νόον εἰρύσαιμι,

εἰς ‘ὲν ταὐτό τε πᾶν ἀνελύετο· πᾶν δ’ ἐὸν αἰεί

πάντῃ ἀνελκόμενον μίαν εἰς φύσιν ἵσταθ’ ὁμοίην.

διὰ τοῦτο γοῦν καὶ ὑπάτυφον αὐτὸν λέγει, καὶ οὐ τέλειον ἄτυφον, δι’ ὧν φησι (Diels Vorsokr. 2 11 A 35) ¹ 51

Ξεινοφάνης ὑπάτυφος, ὁμηραπάτης ἐπισκώπτης,

εἰ τὸν ἀπ’ ἀνθρώπων θεὸν ἐπλάσατ’ ἶσον ἀπάντῃ,

<ἀτρεμῆ> ἀσκηθῆ νοερώτερον ἠὲ νόημα.

ὑπάτυφον μὲν γὰρ εἶπε τὸν κατά τι ἄτυφον, ὁμηραπάτης δὲ ἐπισκώπτην, ἐπεὶ τὴν παρ’ Ὁμήρῳ ἀπάτην διέσυρεν.

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.)

Translations (1)

Outlines of Pyrrhonism First1KGreek (Sextus Empiricus, Vol. 1. Bury, Robert Gregg, translator. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933.) — 1.33.224 focus

[224] For after praising him repeatedly, so that he even dedicated to him his Satires, he represented him as uttering this lamentation—

Would that I too had attained a mind compacted of wisdom,

Both ways casting my eyes; but the treacherous pathway

deceived me,

Old that I was, and as yet unversed in the doubts of the

Sceptic.

For in whatever direction I turned my mind in its questing

All was resolved into One and the Same; All ever-existing

Into one self-same nature returning shaped itself all ways.

So on this account he also calls him ‟semi-vain,” and not perfectly free from vanity, where he says—

Xenophanes semi-vain, derider of Homer’s deceptions,

Framed him a God far other than Man, self-equal in all ways,

Safe from shaking or scathe, surpassing thought in his

thinking.

He called him ‟semi-vain” as being in some degree free from vanity, and ‟derider of Homer’s deceptions” because he censured the deceit mentioned in Homer.¹

Notes on the current edition

Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 29 λέγομεν T (dicimus): διαλαμβάνομεν G ΙΙ κατὰ <τοὺς> περὶ Μηνόδοτον Natorp: κατὰ περμήδοτον GT (secundum permindotum): κατὰ Μηνόδοτον Fabr.: κατὰἩρόδοτον Pappenheim 6 σκεπτικὰ EAB 7 περὶ τούτου EAB 8 ὅλως om. Τ 9 add. Pappenheim 12 ἐν — 25 διέσυρεν om. T 13 τ. Ξ. del. Kayser 16 ἀμφοτερόβλεπτος LM: ἀμφοτερόβλεπτα EAB: ἀμφοτεροβλέπτου dubit. Bekk. 17 ἔτ’ ἐὼν G: ἐτέων dubit. Bekk.: τε γέρων Nauck || ἀμενθήριστος Bergk: ἀπενθήτης ριστος G 18 ὅπη ML: ὅπου EAB 19 ταὐτό τε ML: ταυτότης EAB 20 ὁμοίην EAB: ὁμοία L: ἰσοσταθμοίην Μ 21 τελείως Menagius

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