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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,

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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,

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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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