Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.18.121

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[121] ἔτι καὶ τῶν ἀρχαίων ἀκούων λεγόντων ‘ἤτοι μὲν γὰρ πρῶτα χάος ἐγένετο ’. εἶναι γάρ φασι χάος τὸν τόπον ἀπὸ τοῦ χωρητικὸν αὐτὸν εἷναι τῶν ἐν αὐτᾷ γινομένων. μένων. εἴγε μὴν ἔστι τι
σῶμα, φασίν, ἔστι καὶ ὁ τόπος· ἄνευ γὰρ τούτου ¹ οὐκ ἂν εἴη τὸ σῶμα. καὶ εἰ ἔστι τὸ ὑφ’ οὗ καὶ τὸ ἐξ οὗ, ἔστι καὶ τὸ ἐν ᾧ, ὅπερ ἐστὶν ὁ τόπος· τὸ δὲ πρῶτον ἐν ἑκατέρῳ· τὸ ἄρα δεύτερον ἐν ἀμφοτέροις.

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.) — 3.18.121 focus

[121] and when, also, he hears the ancients declaring that ‟Verily first of all came Chaos into existence”¹ For space, they say, is called Chaos from its capacity for containing² what becomes within it. Then, too, if any body exists, space also exists; for without it body would not exist. And if ‟that-by- which” exists, and ‟that-from-which,”³ there exists; also ‟that-in-which,” and this is space; but the first is in each of the two, therefore the second is in both.⁴

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Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.18.121

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