Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.24.230

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[230] ὁ δὲ Ἡράκλειτός (cf. B 88 Diels) φησιν, ὅτι καὶ τὸ ζῆν καὶ τὸ ἀποθανεῖν καὶ ἐν τῷ ζῆν ἡμᾶς ἐστι καὶ ἐν τῷ τεθνάναι· ὅτε μὲν γὰρ ἡμεῖς ζῶμεν, τὰς ψυχὰς ἡμῶν τεθνάναι καὶ ἐν ἡμῖν τεθάφθαι, ὅτε δὲ ἡμεῖς ¹ ἀποθνῂσκοθεν, τὰς ψυχὰς ἀναβιοῦν καὶ ζῆν. ἔνιοι
δὲ καὶ βέλτιον εἶναι τὸ ἀποθανεῖν τοῦ ζῆν ἡμᾶς ὑπολαμβάνουσιν. ὁ γοῦν Εὐριπίδης φησὶν (fr. 449 Nauck)

ἐχρῆν γὰρ ἡμᾶς σύλλογον ποιουμένους

τὸν φύντα θρηνεῖν, εἰς ὅσ’ ἔρχεται κακά,

τὸν δ’ αὖ θανόντα καὶ κακῶν πεπαυμένον

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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.) — 3.24.230 focus

[230] And Heracleitus¹ states that both life and death exist both in our state of life and in our state of death; for when we live our souls are dead and buried within us, and when we die our souls revive and live. And some even suppose that dying is better for us than living. Thus Euripides says;²

Rather should we assemble to bewail

The babe new-born, such ills has he to face;

Whereas the dead, who has surcease from woe,

With joy and gladness we should bear from home.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 14a

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.24.230

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