Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.25.244

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[244] αὐτὴ γὰρ ἡ θρονίμη διάθεσις ἀκατάληπτός ἐστι, μήτε ἐξ αὑτῆς ἁπλῶς καὶ αὐτόθεν φαινομένη μήτε ἐκ τῶν ἔργων αὐτῆς· κοινὰ γάρ ἐστι ταῦτα καὶ τῶν ἰδιωτῶν. τό τε λέγειν, ὅτι τῷ διομαλισμῷ τῶν πράξεων καταλαμβάνομεν τὸν ἔχοντα τὴν περὶ τὸν βίον τέχνην,
ὑπερφθεγγομένων ἐστὶ τὴν ἀνθρώπων φύσιν καὶ εὐχομένων μᾶλλον ἢ τἀληθῆ λεγόντων· (σ 136 sq.)

τοῖος γὰρ νόος ἐστὶν ἐπιχθονίων ἀνθρώπων ἵρ’

οἷον ἐπ’ ἦμαρ ἄγῃσι πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε.

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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.) — 3.25.244 focus

[244] For the state of prudence itself is inapprehensible, not being directly apparent either of itself or from its products, these being common to ordinary folk as well. And to say that we apprehend the possessor of the art of living by the unvarying quality of his actions¹ is the assertion of those who over-estimate human nature and are visionaries rather than truth- tellers:

As is the day which upon them is brought by the sire

immortal,

So are the minds of mortal men.²

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. §§ 243—244 ~ adv. dogm. V 188—189. 197—199. 207—209.

2. 15 κατελῆφθαι: γεγενῆσθαι Kayser coll. p. 580, 32. 19 ἂν Τ (utique): ἐὰν G 21 malim παρ’ παρακαταθήκας ἧκας coll. p. 584,

οὐδὲ Pappenh. dubit. 24 γινόμενον GT (factum): λεγόμενον Stephanus coll. p. 185, 18; at hic γινόμενον pro locutione πραττόμενον usurpatur, quae differt a verbo ποιούμενον || τι Gen.: τε GT (quoque) 28 τῶν om. L 31 τὴν Bekk. : τῶν G

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