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Sextus Empiricus

Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the Learned Section 109

Section 109 of 757

Canonical reference 1.109

Ancient Greek

Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc

πρός γε μὴν τοῖς λεχθεῖ- σιν ἐναντίον ἐστὶν ἥ τε βραχύτης καὶ ἡ ἐπέκτασις καὶ οὐ συνυφίσταται· ἀναιρέσει γὰρ τῆς βραχύτητος ἡ ἐπέκτασις συνίσταται, καὶ ἀναιρουμένης μακρᾶς βραχεῖα γίνεται. παρʼ ἦν αἰτίαν ἀδύνατον περισπωμένην βραχεῖαν γενέσθαι, διὰ τὸ τῷ περισπασμῷ κατ’ ἀνάγκην συνυφίστασθαι τὴν ἐπέκτασιν.

English AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Moreover, shortness and lengthening are contrary and do not subsist together. Lengthening is constituted by the abolition of shortness, and when length is abolished the sound becomes short. For this reason it is impossible for a short vowel to bear a circumflex, because lengthening necessarily subsists together with the circumflex.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

En outre, la brièveté et l’allongement sont contraires et ne subsistent pas ensemble. Car l’allongement se constitue par l’abolition de la brièveté, et une longue devient brève lorsque sa longueur est abolie. Pour cette raison, une syllabe portant un accent circonflexe ne peut être brève, puisque l’allongement subsiste nécessairement avec le circonflexe.

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