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Sextus Empiricus
Against the Physicists, Books IX-X of Against the Learned Section 148
Section 148 of 791
Canonical reference 9.148
Ancient Greek
Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc
Πρὸς τούτοις· εἰ ἔστι τι θεῖον, ἤτοι πεπερασμένον ἐστὶν ἢ ἄπειρον. καὶ ἄπειρον μὲν οὐκ ἂν εἴη, ἐπεὶ καὶ ἀκίνητον ἂν εἴη καὶ ἄψυχον. εἰ γὰρ κινεῖται τὸ ἄπειρον, τόπον ἐκ τόπου μετέρχεται· τόπον δὲ ἐκ τόπου μετερχόμενον ἐν τόπῳ ἐστίν, ἐν τόπῳ δὲ ὂν πεπέρασται. εἰ ἄρα ἐστί τι ἄπειρον, ἀκίνητόν ἐστιν· ἢ εἴπερ κινεῖται, οὐκ ἔστιν ἄπειρον.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Furthermore, if anything divine exists, it is either finite or infinite. It cannot be infinite, since it would then be motionless and soulless. For if the infinite moves, it passes from place to place. What passes from place to place is in a place, and what is in a place is bounded. Therefore, if anything is infinite, it is motionless; or if it moves, it is not infinite.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
En outre, si quelque chose de divin existe, il est soit limité, soit illimité. Il ne saurait être illimité, puisqu’il serait alors immobile et inanimé. Si l’illimité se meut, il passe d’un lieu à un autre. Or ce qui passe d’un lieu à un autre est dans un lieu, et ce qui est dans un lieu est limité. Si donc quelque chose est illimité, il est immobile ; ou bien, s’il se meut, il n’est pas illimité.
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