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Sextus Empiricus
Against the Ethicists, Book XI of Against the Learned Section 236
Section 236 of 257
Canonical reference 11.236
Ancient Greek
Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc
ἀπολείπεται οὖν λέγειν, ὅτι ὁ τεχνίτης τὸν ἰδιώτην διδάσκει, ὃ πάλιν τῶν ἀμηχάνων· καὶ γὰρ ὁ τεχνίτης συνηπόρηται ἡμῖν τοῖς τῆς τέχνης θεωρήμασιν,
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
It remains, then, to say that the skilled person teaches the layman, which is again impossible. For the skilled person too has been involved with us in perplexity concerning the theorems of the art,
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Il reste donc à dire que l’homme de l’art enseigne au profane, ce qui est encore impossible. Car l’homme de l’art lui-même a été mis en difficulté avec nous par les théorèmes de l’art,
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