Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.24.217

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[217] αἱ δὲ Ἀμαζόνες καὶ ἐχώλευον τὰ ἄρρενα τῶν ὑπ’ αὐτῶν γεννωμένων ὑπὲρ τοῦ μηδὲν ἀνδρεῖον αὐτὰ ποιῆσαι δύνασθαι, περὶ πόλεμον δὲ ἔσχον αὐταί, τοῦ ἐναντίου ¹ 172 παρ’ ἡμῖν καλῶς ἔχειν νενομισμένου. καὶ ἡ μήτηρ δὲ τῶν
θεῶν προσίεται τοὺς θηλυδρίας, οὐκ ἂν οὕτω κρίνασα ἡ θεός, εἴγε φύσει φαῦλον ἦν τὸ μὴ ἀνδρεῖον 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.) — 3.24.217 focus

[217] And the Amazons¹ used to maim the males amongst their offspring so as to make them incapable of any manly action, while they themselves attended to warfare; though with us the opposite practice is regarded as right. The Mother of the gods,² also, approves of effeminates, and the goddess would not have decided thus if unmanliness were naturally a bad thing.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 23 post φιλοφρονησάμενος fort. inser. ὠνείδισε vel simile quid coll. Thuc. I 5, 2 || διὰ τὸ ὑποπτεύειν G: sed propter id quidem suspicdbatur Τ 24 τὸ add. coll. p. 170, 5. 9. 13. 171, 14 || post κλέπτειν Gen. inser. μὲν 25 θεὸν om. M 28 κλέψαντας MEAB: κλέπτας L ὁ ἔντος Brunck: ἐντὸς G: interius Τ || κάλλιπον Τ (dimisi): κάλλιπεν G 7 ὐπ’ αὐτῶν Τ (ab eis): περὶ αὐτὰς G: παρ’ αὐταῖς Bekk. 9 ἔσχον G: hahebant se T: εἶχον vel ἐσχόλαζον Bekk. dub. at cf. p. 177, 13.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.24.217

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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