Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.31.278

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[278]
λεκτέον οὖν, ὅτι εἰ μήτε ἡ τῶν ἀγαθῶν τε καὶ κακῶν καὶ ἀδιαφόρων ὑπόστασις ὁμολογεῖται, ἥ τε περὶ τὸν βίον ¹ τέχνη τάχα μὲν καὶ ἀνυπόστατός ἐστιν , εἰ δὲ καὶ ὑφεστάναι δοθείη καθ’ ὑπόθεσιν, οὐδεμίαν ὠφέλειαν τοῖς ἔχουσιν σιναὐτὴν παρέχει, τοὐναντίον δὲ ταραχὰς αὐτοῖς ἐμποιεῖ
μεγίστας, μάτην ὠφρυπωσθαι δοκοῖεν ἂν οἱ δογματικοὶ κἀν τῷ λεγομένῳ ἠθικῷ μέρει τῆς καλουμένης φιλοσοφίας.

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.) — 3.31.278 focus

[278] We must, then, declare that, if there is no agreement as to the existence of things good and bad and indifferent, and the art of living is possibly non- existent, or—if its existence is provisionally admitted —brings no benefit to its possessors but, on the contrary, causes them extreme perturbations, then the Dogmatists would seem to be vainly puffed up in respect of the so-called Ethical division of what they term ‟philosophy.”

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 32 σοφὸς om. T, sed exstat quoque p. 587, 17. 3 φαύλων L 6 οὖ om. P: ἦς A 9 τῶν τοιούτων GT (talium): τούτων P sicut p. 587,25. 17 18 20 21 ἣ pro εἰ P sicut G ἧ p. 588, 1.
4. 5. ἴ’ 21 τῆς om. L 24 διόΠερ P: ὥστε G: qtiod Τ 28 τὰρ. σφόδρα GT (turbatur valde): σφόδρα ταράττεται P

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.31.278

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