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Sextus Empiricus

Against the Ethicists, Book XI of Against the Learned Section 229

Section 229 of 257

Canonical reference 11.229

Ancient Greek

Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc

τῶν τε σωμάτων τὰ μέν ἐστιν αἰσθητά, τὰ δὲ νοητά. διόπερ εἰ διδάσκεται τὸ σῶμα, ἤτοι τὸ αἰσθητὸν διδάσκεται ἢ τὸ νοητόν. οὔτε δὲ τὸ αἰσθητὸν διδάσκεται διὰ τὸ φαίνεσθαι καὶ ἐξ αὐτοῦ πᾶσι πρόδηλον ὑπάρχειν, οὔτε τὸ νοητὸν διὰ τὴν ἀδηλότητα καὶ τὴν ἀνεπίκριτον μέχρι τοῦ νῦν περὶ αὐτοῦ διαφωνίαν, τῶν μὲν ἄτομον αὐτὸ λεγόντεων τῶν δὲ τμητόν, καὶ τῶν μὲν ἀμερὲς καὶ ἐλάχιστον, τῶν δὲ μεριστὸν καὶ εἰς ἄπειρον τέμνεσθαι δυνάμενον.

English AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11

Furthermore, some bodies are perceptible and others intelligible. Hence, if body is taught, either perceptible body or intelligible body is taught. But perceptible body is not taught because it appears and is self-evident to everyone, nor is intelligible body taught because it is obscure and because the disagreement about it remains undecided to this day. Some say that it is indivisible, others that it is divisible; some that it is partless and minimal, others that it has parts and can be divided infinitely.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11

Parmi les corps, les uns sont sensibles et les autres intelligibles. Par conséquent, si le corps est enseigné, c’est soit le corps sensible, soit le corps intelligible. Or le sensible n’est pas enseigné, puisqu’il apparaît et est de lui-même manifeste à tous; l’intelligible ne l’est pas davantage, à cause de son obscurité et du désaccord indécidable qui subsiste jusqu’à présent à son sujet: les uns le disent indivisible, les autres divisible; les uns sans parties et minimal, les autres composé de parties et divisible à l’infini.

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