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Sextus Empiricus
Against the Physicists, Books IX-X of Against the Learned Section 84
Section 84 of 791
Canonical reference 9.84
Ancient Greek
Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc
εἰ δὲ μὴ ὑπὸ ταύτης, πάντως ὑπὸ φύσεως· καὶ γὰρ τὰ ὑπὸ ψυχῆς διακρατούμενα πολὺ πρότερον ὑπὸ φύσεως συνείχετο. ἀνάγκη ἄρα ὑπὸ τῆς ἀρίστης αὐτὸν φύσεως συνέχεσθαι, ἐπεὶ καὶ περιέχει τἀς πάντων φύσεις. ἡ δέ γε τἀς πάντων περιέχουσα φύσεις καὶ τὰς λογικὰς περιέσχηκεν. (Stoic. fr. Ι 114
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
If not by this, then necessarily by nature, for even things controlled by soul were all the more held together by nature. It must therefore be held together by the best nature, since it also contains the natures of all things. And the nature containing all natures also contains the rational ones. (Stoic fr. I 114
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
S’il ne l’est pas par celle-ci, il l’est nécessairement par une nature, puisque même les choses maintenues par une âme étaient auparavant déjà tenues ensemble par une nature. Il est donc nécessaire que le monde soit maintenu par la meilleure nature, puisqu’il contient aussi les natures de toutes choses. Or la nature qui contient les natures de toutes choses contient également les natures raisonnables (fr. Stoic. I 114
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