Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.17.115

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[115] Ἑπομένως δὲ καὶ περὶ τῆς ὡς πρὸς τὴν φύσιν μονῆς ἠπόρησάν τινες λέγοντες, ὅτι τὸ κινούμενον οὐ μένει,
πᾶν δὲ σῶμα διαρκῶς κινεῖται κατὰ τἀς τῶν δογματικῶν
ὑπολήψεις, ῥευστὴν εἶναι λεγόντων τὴν οὐσίαν καὶ ἀεὶ διαφορήσεις τε καὶ προσθέσεις ποίου μένην, ὧς τὸν μὲν Πλάτωνα (cf. ’ξ 54) μηδὲ ὄντα λέγειν τὰ σώματα ἀλλὰ γινόμενα μᾶλλον καλεῖν, τὸν δὲ Ἡράκλειτον
ὀξείᾳ ποταμοῦ ῥύσει τὴν εὐκινησίαν τῆς ἡμετέρας ὕλης ἀπε ικάζε ἱν. οὐδὲν ἄρα σῶμα μένε.

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.) — 3.17.115 focus

[115] In like manner some have doubted about physical rest,¹ say ing that what is in motion is not at rest, but every body i is constantly in motion according to the views of the Dogmatists who assert that Being is in flux² and always undergoing effluxes and additions— just as Plato does not even speak of bodies as ‟being” but rather calls them ‟becoming,” and Heracleitus compares the mobility of our matter³ to the swift current of a river. Therefore no body is at rest.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.17.115

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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