Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.5.37

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[37] Ἔστω δὲ καὶ πεπιστώσθω τὸ δεῖν ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου κρίνεσθαι τὰ πράγματα. οὐκοῦν, ἐπεὶ πολλὴ τῶν ἀνθρώπων
πων ἐστὶ διαφορά, πρότερον οἱ δογματικοὶ συμφωνησάτωσαν, ὅτι τῷδε τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ δεῖ προσέχειν, εἶθ’ οὕτω καὶ ἡμᾶς αὐτῷ συγκατατίθεσθαι κελευέτωσαν. εἰ δ’ (Plat.Phaedr. p. 264 d. Herodot. vit. Homeri 11)

ἔστ’ ἂν ὕδωρ τε νάῃ καὶ δένδρεα μακρὰ τεθήλῃ
— τοῦτο δὴ τὸ τοῦ λόγου — περὶ αὐτοῦ διαφωνήσουσιν, πῶς ἡμᾶς ἐπείγουσι προπετῶς τινι συγκατατίθεσθαι;

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.) — 2.5.37 focus

[37] But let it be granted and established that objects ought to be judged by Man. Then, since there exists great difference amongst men, let the Dogmatists first agree together that this is the particular man to whom we must attend, and then, and only then, let them bid us also to yield him our assent. But if they are going to dispute about this ‟long as the waters flow on and the tall trees cease not to burgeon” (to quote the familiar saying),¹ how can they urge us to assent rashly to anyone?

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.5.37

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