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Sextus Empiricus
Against the Physicists, Books IX-X of Against the Learned Section 128
Section 128 of 791
Canonical reference 9.128
Ancient Greek
Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc
διόπερ καὶ κτείνοντες αὐτὰ καὶ ταῖς σαρξὶν αὐτῶν τρεφόμενοι ἀδικήσομέν τε καὶ ἀσεβήσομεν ὧς συγγενεῖς ἀναιροῦντες. ἔνθεν καὶ παρῄνουν οὗτοι οἱ φιλόσοφοι ἀπέχεσθαι τῶν ἐμψύχων, καὶ ἀσεβεῖν ἔφασκον τοὺς ἀνθρώπους (vers. Pythagor. XII Nauck) βωμὸν ἐρεύθοντας μακάρων θερμοῖσι φόνοισιν.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Therefore, by killing them and feeding on their flesh, we shall commit injustice and impiety by destroying our kindred. Hence these philosophers exhorted people to abstain from animate beings and said that human beings act impiously (Pythagorean verses XII Nauck), “staining the altar of the blessed with hot slaughter.”
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
C’est pourquoi, en les tuant et en nous nourrissant de leur chair, nous commettrons l’injustice et l’impiété, puisque nous détruirons des êtres qui nous sont apparentés. De là vient que ces philosophes recommandaient de s’abstenir des êtres animés et disaient que les hommes étaient impies (Vers pythagoriciens, XII Nauck),
« lorsqu’ils rougissent l’autel des bienheureux de meurtres encore chauds ».
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