Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 1.33.234

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[234] εἰ δὲ δεῖ καὶ τοῖς περὶ αὐτοῦ λεγομένοις πιστεύειν, φασὶν ὅτι κατὰ μὲν τὸ πρόχειρον Πυρρώνειος ἐφαίνετο εἶναι, κατὰ
δὲ τὴν ἀλήθειαν δογματικὸς ἦν· καὶ ἐπεὶ τῶν ἑταίρων ἀπόπειραν ἐλάμβανε διὰ τῆς ἀπορητικῆς, εἰ εὐφυῶς ἔχουσι πρὸς τὴν ἀνάληψιν τῶν Πλατωνικῶν δογμάτων, δόξαι αὐτὸν ἀπορητικὸν εἶναι, τοῖς μέντοι γε εὐφυέσι τῶν ἑταίρων τὰ Πλάτωνος παρεγχειρεῖν. ἔνθεν καὶ τὸν Ἀρίστωνα (Stoic.
fr. I 344 Arn. cf. Ζ 181) εἰπεῖν περὶ αὐτοῦ ¹ 54

πρόσθε Πλάτων, ὄπιθεν Πύρρων, μέσσος Διόδωρος,

διὰ τὸ προσχρῆσθαι τῇ διαλεκτικῇ τῇ κατὰ τὸν Διόδωρον, εἶναι δὲ ἄντικρυς Πλατωνικόν.

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.) — 1.33.234 focus

[234] And if one ought to credit also what is said about him, he appeared at the first glance, they say, to be a 'Pyrrhonean, but in reality he was a dogmatist; and because he used to test his companions by means of dubitation to see if they were fitted by nature for the reception of the Platonic dogmas, he was thought to be a dubitative philosopher, but he actually passed on to such of his companions as were naturally gifted the dogmas of Plato. And this was why Ariston¹ described him as ‟Plato the head of him, Pyrrho the tail, in the midst Diodorus;”² because he employed the dialectic of Diodorus, although he was actually a Platonist.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 20 σφοδρῶς L 22 περὶ τοῦ τέλους T (de fine) 23/24 qui ipsam decora videntur viri T 31 εἶναι δοκεῖν Μ 3 est esse (sic) T, unde fortasse verbura eliciendum: λέγει vel φησὶ 5 ἐκτὸς scripsi coll. p. 243, 12. 746,26: ἐξὸν M: ἤτοι πλὴν LEAB: nisi quis dicat T || λέγει L || ἡμεῖς μὲν κατὰ om. L 8 εἶναι om. Τ || αὐτὸν scripsi T secutus (unde et bonum quidem ipse dicit): αὐτὴν G 11 ἐπὶ LEAB || ἑτεαριων M: sodaliumT: ἑτέρων LEAB 14 ἑταίρων MT (sodalium): ἑτέρων LEAB 15 παρεγχει- ρίζειν Bekk. dubit. || exinde fertur T 30 ἐπεὶ δὲ EABT (quando autem): ἐπεὶ δὴ L: ἐπειδὴ M 9 <καὶ> ἐλέγ. edd. 16 ἐατρὸς om. T cf. p. 56,1

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