Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.22.257

[257] —as, for example, in the case of the ambiguity ‟In periods of abatement one should sanction a varied diet and wine.” ¹ And in the ordinary affairs of life we see already how people —ay, and even the slave-boys—distinguish ambiguities when they think such distinction is of use. Certainly, if a master who had servants named alike were to bid a boy called, say, ‟Manes” (supposing this to be common name for a servant) to be summoned, the slave-boy will ask ‟Which one?” And if a man who had several different wines were to say to his boy ‟Pour me out a draught of wine,” then too the boy will ask ‟Which one?”