Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.7.43

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[43] εἰ δὲ ἄλλοις <μὲν> μέρεσιν ἡ ἐπιφάνεια ἂπτεται τῆς τοῦ παρατιθεμένου αὐτῇ σώματος ἐπιφανείας, ἄλλοις δὲ συνήνωται τῷ σώματι οὗ ἐστι πέρας, <οὐκ ¹ ἀβαθής, διαφόρων τῶν αὐτῆς μερῶν νοουμένων κατὰ βάθοε, ² τοῦ μὲν τοῦ παρατιθεμένου ἁπτομένου, τοῦ δὲ καθ’ ³ ὃ συνήνωται τῷ σώματι οὗ ἐστι πέρας>. οὐκ ἄρα περὶ σώματι θεωρῆσαι δύναταί τις μῆκος καὶ πλάτος ἀβαθές, ὅθεν οὐδὲ ἐπιφάνειαν. ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ δύο ἐπιφανειῶν
καθ’ ὑπόθεσιν παρατιθεμένων ἀλλήλαις κατὰ τὰ πέρατα αὐτῶν εἰς ἃ λήγουσι, κατὰ τὸ λεγόμενον αὐτῶν μῆκος εἶναι, τουτέστι κατὰ γραμμάς, αἱ γραμμαὶ αὗται, δι’ ὧν ἅπτεσθαι λέγονται ἀλλήλων αἱ ἐπιφάνειαι, οὐχ ἑνωθήσονται μὲν ἀλλήλαις (συγχυθεῖεν γὰρ ἄν)· εἰ δὲ
ἑκάστη αὐτῶν ἄλλοις μὲν μέρεσι τοῖς κατὰ πλάτος ἅπτεται τῆς παρατιθεμένης αὐτῇ γραμμῆς, ἄλλοις δὲ συνήνωται τῇ ἐπιφανείᾳ ἧς ἐστι πέρας, οὐκ ἔσται ἀπλατής, ὅθεν οὐδὲ γραμμή. εἰ δὲ μήτε γραμμὴ ἔστιν ἐν σώματι μήτε ἐπιφάνεια, οὐδὲ μῆκος ἢ πλάτος ἢ βάθος ἔσται ἐν σώματι.

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.) — 3.7.43 focus

[43] And if the surface touches the surface of the juxtaposed Body with some of its parts, and with other parts is united with the Body of which it is a limit, it will not be without depth, since its parts are conceived as different in respect of depth, one part touching the juxtaposed Body, the other being that which effects its union with the Body whereof it is a limit. Hence, even in connexion with Body one cannot imagine length and breadth without depth, nor, consequently, surface.

So likewise when two surfaces are, let us imagine, juxtaposed along the limits where they come to an end, by way of what is called their ‟length,” that is to say by way of their ‟lines,” then these lines, by means of which the surfaces are said to touch each other, will not be unified (else they would be fused together); yet if each of them touches the line which lies next to it breadth-wise with some of its parts and by others is united with the surface of which it is a limit, it will not be without breadth, and, consequently, it will not be a line. But if there exists in Body neither line nor surface, neither length nor breadth nor depth will exist in Body.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 12a

2. 12b

3. 12c

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.7.43

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