Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.24.229

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[229] καὶ τὸν θάνατον δὲ αὐτὸν οἱ μὲν δεινὸν καὶ φευκτόν εἶναι νομίζουσιν, οἱ δὲ οὐ τοιοῦτον. ὁ γοῦν Εὐριπίδης φησὶν (fr. 638Nauck).

τίς δ’ οἶδεν εἰ τὸ ζῆν μέν ἐστι κατθανεῖν,

τὸ κατθανεῖν δὲ ζῆν κάτω νομίζεται;

καὶ ὁ Ἐπίκουρος (p. 61, 6. 71, 6 Us.) δέ φησιν ‘ὁ θάνατος οὐδὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς· τὸ γὰρ διαλυθὲν ἀναισθητεῖ, τὸ δὲ ἀναισθητοῦν οὐδὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς.’ φασὶ ¹ δὲ καὶ ὧς εἴπερ συνεστήκαμεν ἐκ ψυχῆς καὶ σώματος,
ὁ δὲ θάνατος διάλυσίς ἐστι ψυχῆς καὶ σώμα- τος, ὅτε μὲν ἡμεῖς ἐσμέν, οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ θάνατος οὐ γάρ διαλυόμεθα), ὅτε δὲ ὁ θάνατος ἔστιν, οὐκ ἐσμὲν ἡμεῖς· τῷ γὰρ μηκέτι τὴν σύστασιν εἶναι τῆς ² 175
ψυχῆς καὶ τοῦ σώματος οὐδὲ ἡμεῖς ἐσμεν.

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.) — 3.24.229 focus

[229] Some, too, believe death itself to be dreadful and horrible, others do not. Thus Euripides says:¹

Who knows if life be but the state of death,

And death be counted life in realms below?

And Epicurus declares:² ‟Death is nothing to us; for what is dissolved is senseless, and what is senseless is nothing to us.” They also declare that, inasmuch as we are compounded of soul and body, and death is a dissolution of soul and body, when we exist death does not exist (for we are not being dissolved), and when death exists we do not exist, for through the cessation of the compound of soul and body we too cease to exist.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 4a

2. 10/11 ea que putantur religiosa et que putantur illicitaT 12 δέ <τούτοις> T (proxima autem hiis) || ἔστι om. EABT || κατοιχουμένους L 20 γυψίοις L

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.24.229

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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