Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.19.148

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[148] ἀλλ' οὐδὲ γενητὸς καὶ φθαρτός. τὰ γὰρ γινόμενα ἔκ τινος ὄντος γίγνεσθαι δεῖ ¹²³⁴ 155 καὶ τὰ φθειρόμενα εἴς τι ὂν φθείρεσθαι κατὰ τὰς τῶν δογματικῶν αὐτῶν ὑποθέσεις. εἰ οὖν εἰς τὸν παρῳχημένον φθείρεται, εἰς οὐκ ὂν φθείρεται, καὶ εἰ ἐκ τοῦ μέλλοντος γίνεται, ἐξ οὐκ ὄντος γίνεται· οὐθέτερος γὰρ αὐτῶν
ἔστιν. ἄτοπον δὲ τὸ λέγειν τι ἐξ οὐκ ὄντος γίνεσθαι ἤ εἰς τὸ μὴ ὂν φθείρεσθαι. οὐκ ἄρα γενητὸς καὶ φθαρ- τός ἐστιν ὁ χρόνος. εἰ δὲ μήτε ἀγένητος καὶ ἄφθαρτός ἐστι μήτε γενητὸς καὶ φθαρτός, οὐδὲ ὅλως ἔστιν.

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.) — 3.19.148 focus

[148] For things generated must be generated from something existent, and things which perish must perish into something existent, according to the postulates of the Dogmatists themselves.¹ If, then, time perishes into the past, it perishes into a non-existent; and if it is generated out of the future, it is generated out of a non-existent; for neither of these is in existence. But it is absurd to say that anything is generated from a non-existent or perishes into the non-existent. Therefore time is not generable and perishable. But if it is neither ingenerable and imperishable nor generable and perishable, it does not exist at all.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. §§ 144—145 ~ adv. dogm. IV 197—199.

2. § 146 ~ adv. dogm. IV 200—202.

3. §§ 147—148 ~ adv. dogm. IV 203—205.

4. 31 ἐνεστῶτα M 32 ἀνεπινοήτως Kayser: ἀπερινοήτως G 1 fort. <καὶ> οὕτως 5 οὖν del. Bekk. coll. p. 146, 27; fort. 9 ἔσται Μ || τι om. L || ἀνυπάρκτων Kayser: ἀνυπάρκτου G

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.19.148

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