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Sextus Empiricus
Against the Physicists, Books IX-X of Against the Learned Section 323
Section 763 of 791
Canonical reference 10.323
Ancient Greek
Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc
καὶ μὴν εἰ γίνεταί τι καὶ φθείρεται, ὀφείλει τί τινι προστίθεσθαι καί τί τινος ἀφαιρεῖσθαι ἤ τι ἔκ τινος μεταβάλλειν· γένεσις γὰρ καὶ φθορὰ κατά τινα τῶν τριῶν τούτων τρόπων ὀφείλει συνίστασθαι, οἶον ἐπὶ τῆς δεκάδος κατ’ ἀφαίρεσιν τῆς μονάδος γίνεται μέν ἡ ἐννεάς, φθείρεται ται δὲ ἡ δεκάς, καὶ πάλιν ἐπὶ τῆς ἐννεάδος κατὰ πρόσθεσιν σιν μονάδος γίνεται μὲν ἡ δεκάς, φθείρεται δὲ ἡ ἐννεάς. καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν κατὰ τροπὴν φθειρομένων ἢ γεννωμένων ὁ αὐτὸς λόγος· οὕτω γὰρ φθείρεται μὲν ὁ οἶνος, γίνεται δὲ <ὁ> ὄξος.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Moreover, if anything comes to be and is destroyed, something must be added to something, something must be taken away from something, or something must change from one thing into another. For generation and destruction must occur in one of these three ways. For example, when a unit is taken away from the decad, the ennead comes to be and the decad is destroyed; and again, when a unit is added to the ennead, the decad comes to be and the ennead is destroyed. The same account applies to things destroyed or generated through transformation: thus wine is destroyed and vinegar comes to be.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
En outre, si quelque chose naît et se corrompt, il faut que quelque chose soit ajouté à quelque chose, que quelque chose soit retranché de quelque chose, ou que quelque chose se transforme à partir de quelque chose. Car la génération et la corruption doivent s’accomplir suivant l’un de ces trois modes. Ainsi, lorsqu’on retranche une monade de la décade, l’ennéade naît et la décade se corrompt; inversement, lorsqu’on ajoute une monade à l’ennéade, la décade naît et l’ennéade se corrompt. Le même raisonnement vaut pour ce qui se corrompt ou naît par transformation : ainsi le vin se corrompt et le vinaigre naît.
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