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Sextus Empiricus

Against the Physicists, Books IX-X of Against the Learned Section 400

Section 400 of 791

Canonical reference 9.400

Ancient Greek

Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc

ὅπερ εἰπεῖν οὐ δυνήσονται. καὶ μὴν οὐδὲ κατὰ ἀναλογίαν παρῆλθεν ἡ τοῦ ἀπλατοῦς μήκους νόησις. τὰ γὰρ κατὰ ἀναλογίαν νοούμενα ἔχει τι κοινὸν πρὸς τὰ ἀφ’ ὧν νοεῖται, οἶον ἀπὸ τοῦ κοινοῦ μεγέθους τἀνθρώπου κατὰ παραύξησιν ἐνοήσαμεν τὸν Κύκλωπα καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ αὐτοῦ πάλιν κατὰ μείωσιν τὸν πυγμαῖον·

English AI-generated translation, non-official

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

They will be unable to say. Nor, indeed, did the conception of breadthless length arise by analogy. Things conceived by analogy have something in common with those from which they are conceived. For example, from a human being of ordinary size we conceived the Cyclops by enlargement, and from the same human being the pygmy by diminution.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Ils ne pourront le dire. La conception de la longueur sans largeur n’est pas non plus venue par analogie. Car les choses conçues par analogie ont quelque chose de commun avec celles à partir desquelles elles sont conçues. Ainsi, à partir de l’homme de taille ordinaire, nous avons conçu par agrandissement le Cyclope, et à partir du même homme, par diminution, le pygmée.

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