Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.24.231

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[231] (Theogn. 425)

ἀρχὴν μὲν μὴ φῦναι ἐπιχθονίοισιν ἄριστον,

μηδ’ ἐσιδεῖν αὐγὰς ὀξέος ἠελίου,

φύντα δ’ ὅπως ὤκιστα πύλας Ἀί·δαο περῆσαι
καὶ κεῖσθαι πολλὴν γαῖαν ἐφεσσάμενον. καὶ τὰ περὶ Κλέοβιν δὲ καὶ Βίτωνα ἴσμεν, ἅ φησιν ὁ Ἡρόδοτος ἐν τῷ περὶ τῆς Ἀργείας ἱερείας λόγῳ (I 31).

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.) — 3.24.231 focus

[231] These lines, too, spring from the same sentiment:¹

Not to have been begotten at all were the best thing for

mortals,

Nor to have lookèd upon fiery rays of the sun:

Or, if begotten, to hasten amain to the portals of Hades,

And to lie unmoved robèd in masses of earth.

We know, too, the facts about Cleobis and Biton which Herodotus² relates in his story of the Argive priestess.

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