Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.19.144

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[144] ὅ τε χρόνος λέγεται τριμερὴς εἷναι, καὶ τὸ μὲν παρῳχηκώς, τὸ δὲ ἐνεστώς, τὸ δὲ μέλλων. ὧν ὁ μὲν παρῳχηκὼς καὶ ὁ μέλλων οὐκ εἰσίν· εἰ γὰρ εἰσὶ νῦν ὅ τε παρῳχηκὼς καὶ ὁ μέλλων χρόνος, ἔσται ἐνεστὼς ἑκάτερος αὐτῶν.
ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ ὁ ἐνεστώς· εἰ γὰρ ἔστιν ὁ ἐνεστὼς χρόνος, ἤτοι ἀμέριστός ἐστιν ἢ μεριστός. ἀμέριστος μὲν οὖν οὔκ ἐστιν· ἐν γὰρ τῷ ἐνεστῶτι χρόνῳ λέγεται τὰ μεταβάλλοντα μεταβάλλειν, οὐδὲν δὲ ἐν ἀμερεῖ χρόνῳ μεταβάλλει, οἷον ὁ σίδηρος εἰς μαλακότητα ἢ τῶν ἄλλων ἕκαστον. ὥστε
οὔκ ἐστιν ἀμέριστος ὁ ἐνεστὼς χρόνος.

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.) — 3.19.144 focus

[144] Time, too, is said to be tripartite, partly past, partly present, and partly future. Of these the past and the future are non-existent; for if past and future time exist now, each of them will be present. Neither is the present existent; for if present time exists it is either indivisible or divisible. Now it is not indivisible; for what changes is said to change in the present time, but nothing changes in indivisible time¹—iron, for instance, into softness, and so on. Hence present time is not indivisible.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.19.144

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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