Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.24.204

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[204] ὥσπερ οὐδὲ ἀνθοβαφῆ καὶ ποδήρη τις ἄρρην ἐνταῦθα <ἂν> ἀμφιέσαιτο ἐσθῆτα, καίτοι Πέρσαις εὐπρεπεστάτου τοῦ παρ’ ἡμῖν αἰσχροῦ τούτου
¹ 169 δοκοῦντος εἶναι. καὶ παρὰ Διονυσίῳ δὲ τῷ τῆς Σικελίας τυράννῳ τοιαύτης ἐσθῆτος Πλάτωνι καὶ Ἀριστίππῳ τοῖς φιλοσόφοις προσενεχθείσης ὁ μὲν Πλάτων’ ἀπεπέμψατο, εἰπὼν (Eurip. Bacch. 836)

οὖσ’ ἄν δυναίμην θῆλυν ενδῦναι στολήν

ἄρρην πεφυκὼς,

ὁ δὲ Ἀρίστιππος προσήκατο, φήσας (Bacch. 317)

καὶ γὰρ ἐν βακχεύμασιν

οὖσ' ἥ γε σώφρωνov οὐ διαφθαρήσεται.

οὕτω καὶ τῶν σοφῶν ᾧ μὲν οὐκ αἰσχρόν, ᾧ δὲ αἰσχρὸν ἐδόκει τοῦτο εἶναι.

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.) — 3.24.204 focus

[204] just as no man here would dress himself in a flowered robe reaching to the feet, although this dress, which with us is thought shameful, is held to be highly respectable by the Persians. And when, at the Court of Dionysius the tyrant of Sicily, a dress of this description was offered to the philosophers Plato and Aristippus,¹ Plato sent it away with the words—

A man am I, and never could I don

A woman’s garb;

but Aristippus accepted it, saying—

For e’en midst revel-routs

She that is chaste will keep her purity.

Thus, even in the case of these sages, while the one of them deemed this practice shameful, the other did not.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 12 Γερμανοῖς GT (apud germanow): Καρμανοῖς Fabricius cf. p. 35, 8 19 Κιτιέα Bekk.: Κιττιέα G: citiensem Τ 23 γοῦν ML: οὖν EAB 28 καὶ om. T 7 ἀπ’ Gen.: om. G: in eis dependent T 9 ἂν add. Bekk. 10 τοῦ vel τούτου secl. Pasquali

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.24.204

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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