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Sextus Empiricus

Against the Physicists, Books IX-X of Against the Learned Section 334

Section 334 of 791

Canonical reference 9.334

Ancient Greek

Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc

οἱ δὲ φάμενοι μηδ’ ὅλως εἶναι κενόν, ὡς οἱ ἐκ τοῦ Περιπάτου, τὸ ὅλον καὶ τὸ πᾶν τῶν σωμάτων μόνον, οὐχὶ δὲ καὶ τοῦ κενοῦ ἐπικατηγοροῦσιν.

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

Those who say that there is no void at all, such as the Peripatetics, predicate “the whole” and “the all” only of bodies, not also of the void.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Ceux qui affirment que le vide n’existe absolument pas, comme les Péripatéticiens, attribuent les termes « tout » et « ensemble » aux seuls corps, et non aussi au vide.

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