Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.6.31

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[31] οἱ δὲ περὶ τόν ‘Εμπεδοκλέα καὶ τοὺς ¹² 126 Στωικοὺς πῦρ ἀέρα ὕδωρ γῆν — περὶ γὰρ τῆς τερατολογουμένης ἀποίου παρά τισιν ὕλης, ἣν οὐδὲ αὐτοὶ καταλαμβάνειν διαβεβαιοῦνται, τί δεῖ καὶ λέγειν; οἱ δὲ περὶ Ἀριστοτέλην τὸν Περιπατητικὸν πῦρ ἀέρα ὕδωρ γῆν τὸ
κυκλοφορητικὸν σῶμα,

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.) — 3.6.31 focus

[31] the School of Empedocles as well as the Stoics, fire, air, water and earth—for why should one even mention that mysterious ‟indeterminate matter” which some of them talk about,¹ when not even they themselves are positive that they apprehend it? Aristotle the Peripatetic takes as his Principles fire, air, water, earth, and the ‟revolving body;”²

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. §§ 30—32 ~ adv. dogm. III 359—364 (cf. Doxogr. p. 248 sqq. Diels).

2. 27 τι del. Bekk. 28 <ἄρα> ἐστὶν Gen. 29 λοιπὸν om. ΜΤ ΙΙ εἰ Τ (quod si): ἐπεὶ Bekk.: om. G 5 δραστικῆς <αἰτίας> Τ (de . . . agenti causa) 9 γὰρ om. EAB 16 καὶ τοὺς Τ (qui autem circa empedoclem et stoicos) A: πρὸς τοὺς MLEB cf. p. 462,3.

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