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Sextus Empiricus

Against the Physicists, Books IX-X of Against the Learned Section 320

Section 760 of 791

Canonical reference 10.320

Ancient Greek

Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc

τὸ γὰρ γινόμενον καὶ ρόμενον ἐν χρόνῳ φθείρεται καὶ γίνεται, χρόνος δὲ οὐκ ἔστιν, ὡς ἀνώτερον παρεστήσαμεν (§ 170sqq.) ὥστε οὐδὲ γινόμενον καὶ φθειρόμενον ἔσται.

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

For what comes to be and is destroyed is destroyed and comes to be in time; but time does not exist, as we established above (§ 170 ff.). Therefore, neither will there be anything that comes to be and is destroyed.

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

En effet, ce qui naît et se corrompt se corrompt et naît dans le temps; mais le temps n’existe pas, comme nous l’avons établi plus haut (§ 170 sq.). Il n’existera donc rien qui naisse et se corrompe.

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