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Sextus Empiricus
Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the Learned Section 110
Section 110 of 757
Canonical reference 1.110
Ancient Greek
Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc
διόπερ εἰ φύσει τι δίχρονόν ἐστι στοιχεῖον, ἤτοι ὑφʼ ἓν περὶ αὐτὸ ἥ τε τῆς βραχύτητος καὶ ἡ τῆς ἐπ- εκτάσεως ὑποστήσεται δύναμις ἢ παρὰ μέρος. ἀλλʼ ὑφʼ ἓν μὲν ἀμήχανον περὶ γὰρ τὴν αὐτὴν ἐκφώνησιν κατὰ τὸ αὐτὸ ἀναιρετικαὶ ἀλλήλων δυνάμεις οὐκ ἂν ὑποσταῖεν. λείπεται ἄρα παρὰ μέρος. ὃ πάλιν ἐστὶν ἀπίθανον ὅτε γὰρ ἐστι μακρόν, τότε οὐκ ἔστι κοινὸν στοιχεῖον βραχύ- τητος καὶ μήκους, ἀλλὰ βραχὺ μόνον.|
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Therefore, if any letter is naturally variable in quantity, the capacities for shortness and lengthening will subsist in it either simultaneously or in alternation. Simultaneously is impossible, for mutually destructive capacities could not subsist at the same time in the same utterance. It remains that they subsist in alternation. But this again is implausible, for when the letter is long it is not then common to shortness and length, but only [long].
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Par conséquent, s’il existe par nature un élément à deux temps, les puissances de brièveté et d’allongement subsisteront autour de lui soit simultanément, soit tour à tour. Simultanément, c’est impossible, car des puissances qui s’abolissent mutuellement ne sauraient subsister en même temps dans la même émission vocale. Il reste donc qu’elles surviennent tour à tour. Mais cela est encore invraisemblable, car lorsqu’il est long, l’élément n’est pas commun à la brièveté et à la longueur, mais seulement bref.
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