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Sextus Empiricus

Against the Ethicists, Book XI of Against the Learned Section 3

Section 3 of 257

Canonical reference 11.3

Ancient Greek

Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc

Πάντες μὲν οἱ κατὰ τρόπον στοιχειοῦν δοκοῦντες τῶν φιλοσόφων, καὶ ἐπιφανέστατα παρὰ πάντας οἵ τε ἀπὸ τῆς ἀρχαίας Ἀκαδημίας καὶ οἱ ἀπὸ τοῦ Περιπάτου, ἔτι δὲ τῆς Στοᾶς, εἰώθασι διαιρούμενοι λέγειν τῶν ὄντων τὰ μὲν εἷναι ἀγαθά, τὰ δὲ κακά, τὰ δὲ μεταξὺ τούτων, ἅπερ καὶ ἀδιάφορα λέγουσιν·

English AI-generated translation, non-official

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

All philosophers who are thought to set out their doctrines methodically, and most conspicuously of all the members of the Old Academy, the Peripatetics, and also the Stoics, customarily divide existing things by saying that some are good, some evil, and some intermediate between these, which they also call indifferent.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Tous les philosophes qui paraissent établir leurs principes avec méthode, et tout particulièrement les représentants de l’ancienne Académie, du Péripatos et encore de la Stoa, ont coutume de diviser les êtres en disant que les uns sont des biens, les autres des maux, et d’autres intermédiaires entre eux, qu’ils appellent aussi indifférents.

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