Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.7.39

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[39] τινὲς δὲ σῶμα εἶναι λέγουσι τὸ τριχῇ διαστατὸν μετὰ ἀντιτυπίας. σημεῖον μὲν γάρ φασιν οὗ ¹²³⁴ 128 μέρος οὐθέν, γραμμὴν δὲ μῆκος ἀπλατές, ἐπιφάνειαν δὲ μῆκος μετὰ πλάτους· ὅταν δὲ αὕτη καὶ βάθος προσλάβῃ καὶ ἀντιτυπίαν, σῶμα εἷναι, περὶ οὗ νῦν ἐστιν ἡμῖν ὁ λόγος, συνεστὼς ἔκ τε μήκους καὶ
πλάτους καὶ βάθους καὶ ἀντιτυπίας.

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.) — 3.7.39 focus

[39] But some define Body as what has three dimensions combined with resistance or solidity.¹ For they describe the point as that which has no parts, the line as length without breadth, the surface as length with breadth; and when this takes on both depth and resistance there is formed Body—the object of our present discussion—it being composed of length and breadth and depth and resistance.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. § 37~adv. dogm. III 365.

2. § 38~adv. dogm. III 366.

3. § 39 cf. adv. dogm. III 367. adv. math. III 19—20.

4. 17 ἀποδείξει MLT (demonstratione): ἀποδείξεως EAB, unde editorum error δι᾿ ἀποδείξεως 18 ἐκβληθήσεται olim tentatum a Nauckio T (eicietur): ἐμβλ. G vide ad p. 132,28.. 23 καὶ om. T 24 ἐνδιατρίψωμεν GT (retardemus) : ἐνδιατρίψομεν edd. 29 ἂν Bekk. : ἐὰν G: quamcumque si quis T 2 ἐστιν T (sunt): ἔσται G 11 μὲν om. L || φασιν om. T

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.7.39

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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