Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.24.216

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[216] ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ δειλὸς καὶ ὁ ῥίψασπις
ἀνὴρ κολάζεται παρὰ πολλοῖς νόμῳ· διὸ καὶ ἡ τὴν ἀσπίδα τῷ παιδὶ ἐπὶ πόλεμον ἐξιόντι διδοῦσα Λάκαινα ‘σὺ
ἔφη, ‘τέκνον, ἢ ταύταν ἢ ἐπὶ ταύταν'. Ἀρχίλοχος δέ, ὥσπερ σεμνυνόμενος ἡμῖν ἐπὶ τῷ τὴν ἀσπίδα ῥίψας φυ- γεῖν, ἐν τοῖς ποιήμασι περὶ ἑαυτοῦ φησὶν (fr. 58 B.)

ἀσπίδι μὲν Σαΐων τις ἀγάλλεται, ἣν παρὰ θάμνῳ

ἔντος ἀμώμητον κάλλιπον οὐκ ἐθέλων,

αὐτὸς δ’ ἐξέφυγον θανάτου τέλος.

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.) — 3.24.216 focus

[216] Moreover, the coward and the man who throws away his shield are in many places punished by law; and this is why the Laconian mother, when giving a shield to her son as he set out for the war, said, ‟Either with this, my child, or upon it.” Yet Archilochus,¹ as though vaunting to us of his flight after flinging away his shield, speaks thus of himself in his poems—

Over my shield some Saïan warrior gloats,—

The shield I left, though loth, beside the bush—

A flawless piece of armour; I myself

Fled and escaped from death which endeth all.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.24.216

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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