Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.24.207

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[207] ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ ἀνθρωπείων γεύεσθαι σαρκῶν παρ’ ἡμῖν μὲν ¹ ἄθεσμον, παρ’ ὅλοις δὲ βαρβάροις ἔθνεσιν ἀδιάφορόν
ἐστιν. καὶ τί δεῖ τοὺς βαρβάρους λέγειν, ὅπου καὶ ὁ Τυδεὺς τὸν ἐγκέφαλον τοῦ πολεμίου λέγεται φαγεῖν φαγεῖν, καὶ ² 170 οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς Στοᾶς (Stoic. fr. I, 254 III, 748 Arn.) οὐκ ἄτοπον εἶναί φασι τὸ σάρκας τινὰ ἐσθίειν ἄλλων τε ἀν’ θρώπων καὶ ἑαυτοῦ;

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.) — 3.24.207 focus

[207] Moreover, the eating of human flesh is sinful with us, but indifferent amongst whole tribes of barbarians.¹ Yet why should one speak of ‟barbarians” when even Tydeus² is said to have devoured the brains of his enemy, and the Stoic School declare that it is not wrong for a man to eat either other men’s flesh or his own?

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 9a

2. 11 <οὕτω> καὶ T (sic et) cf. v. 20. 23 ἀσκοῦντες δοκεῖν 27 Κιτιεὺς Bekk : Κιττιεὺς G 28/29 τῷ ἑαυτοῦ μορίῳ MLT (suo memhro confricare): τῶν αὐτοῦ μορίων EAB 2 δοκι- μάζει Kayser 6 ἀπέρατον EAB 7 ἄλλοις EAB 8 τούτῳ om. T

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.24.207

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