Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.10.68

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[68] ἄλλως τε καὶ εἰ τὸ κινοῦν ἐνεργεῖ, τὸ δὲ ἐνεργοῦν κινεῖται, κἀκεῖνο δεήσεται κινοῦντος ἑτέρου, καὶ τὸ δεύτερον τρίτου, καὶ μέχρις ἀπείρου, ὡς ἄναρχον γίνεσθαι τὴν κίνησιν· ὅπερ ἄτοπον. οὐκ ἄρα πᾶν τὸ
κινούμενον ὑφ᾿ ἑτέρου κινεῖται. ἀλλ᾿ οὐδὲ ὑφ᾿ ἑαυτοῦ. ἐπεὶ <γὰρ> πᾶν τὸ κινοῦν ἤτοι προωθοῦν κινεῖ ἢ ἐπισπώμενον ¹²³ 137 ἢ ἀνωθοῦν ἢ ἐνθλῖβον, δεήσει τὸ ἑαυτὸ κινοῦν κατά τινα τῶν προειρημένων τρόπων ἑαυτὸ κινεῖν.

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.) — 3.10.68 focus

[68] Moreover, if the movent thing is active, and what is active is moved, that movent thing will need another movent thing, and the second a third, and so on ad infinitum, so that the motion comes to have no beginning; which is absurd. Therefore the thing that moves is not always moved by another. Nor yet by itself. Since every movent causes motion either by pushing forward or by drawing after or by pushing up or by thrusting down, what is self-movent must move itself in one of the aforesaid ways.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. § 67 ~ adv. dogm. IV 70—76.

2. § 68 ἀλλ᾿ οὐδὲ–69 ~ adv. dogm. IV 83—84.

3. 17 δὴ MEAB: δὲ LT (autem) 21 <αὐτοῦ> γιγνομένας T (eius factas) 24 secundum quem autem modum Τ 25 ἐστι Τ (sunt) || ὁ ἀντισθένης in mrg. G 26 addidi coll. p. 115, 8. 490, 3. 1 lacunam quam statui sic fere expleverim <οὐκ ἔσται κίνησις>, sed plura excidisse monet forsitan v. 6 ἐπιβολὴν : 6 ἄλλως—9 κίνησιν hunc in locum transferri iubet Pasquali || ἑτέρου alt. T (ab alio): ἑαυτοῦ G 3 μὲν <οὖν> Bekk. 11 γὰρ add. Gen.

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