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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.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
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.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
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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