Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.31.275

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[275] ἀλλὰ κατὰ μὲν τὸ μὴ
γίνεσθαι ἐν φαύλαις κρίσεσιν οὐκ ἂν εἴη ἐγκρατής· οὐ γάρ κρατήσει οὗ οὐκ ἔχει. καὶ ὡς οὐκ ἂν εἴποι τις τὸν εὐνοῦχον ἐγκρατῆ πρὸς ἀφροδίσια καὶ τὸν κακοστομαχοῦντα πρὸς ἐδεσμάτων ἀπόλαυσιν οὐδ’ ὅλως γὰρ ἐπιζήτησις αὐτοῖς γίνεται τῶν τοιούτων, ἴνα καὶ ἐγκρατῶς κατεξαναστῶσι
τῆς ἐπιζητήσεως), τῷ αὐτῷ τρόπῳ οὐδὲ τὸν σοφὸν ἐγκρατῆ ῥητέον διὰ τὸ μὴ φύεσθαι ἐν αὐτῷ πάθος οὗ ἔσται ἐγκρατής.

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.) — 3.31.275 focus

[275] But in respect of his freedom from bad resolutions he will not be self-controlled; for he will not control what he does not possess. And just as one would not call a eunuch temperate in sex- indulgence, or a man with a poor stomach temperate in respect of the pleasures of the table (for they feel no attraction at all towards such things, so that they might rise superior to the attraction through temperance), —in the same way we ought not to term the sage temperate, because he possesses no natural feeling over which he may exercise control.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.31.275

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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