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Sextus Empiricus

Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the Learned Section 198

Section 198 of 757

Canonical reference 1.198

Ancient Greek

Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc

ἀλλʼ εἰ ἐπακολουθῶν τις αὐτοῖς πύθοιτο αὐτὸ δέ τοῦτο τὸ κτᾶσθαι ὅτι ὀρθῶς εἴρηται, ἀφʼ οὖ καὶ τὸ χρᾶσθαι ἀπο- δείκνυμεν, πόθεν ἴσμεν;ʼ φήσουσιν ὅτι ἐν τῇ συνηθεία λέ- γεται. τοῦτο δὲ λέγοντες δώσουσι τὸ τῇ συνηθείᾳ δεῖν ὡς κριτηρίῳ προσέχειν, ἀλλὰ μὴ τῇ ἀναλογίρ.

English AI-generated translation, non-official

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

But if someone follows their reasoning and asks, “How do we know that this very form ktasthai, from which we also prove chrasthai, is correctly spoken?” they will say that it is used in customary speech. By saying this they will concede that we must attend to custom as criterion, not to analogy.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Mais si quelqu’un, poursuivant leur raisonnement, demandait: «Comment savons-nous que κτᾶσθαι lui-même, par lequel nous démontrons χρᾶσθαι, est correctement dit?», ils répondraient qu’on le dit dans l’usage. En disant cela, ils accorderont qu’il faut s’attacher à l’usage comme critère, et non à l’analogie.

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