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Sextus Empiricus
Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the Learned Section 202
Section 202 of 757
Canonical reference 1.202
Ancient Greek
Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc
τῇ ἄρα συνηθεία ἐκβάλ- λοντες τὴν συνήθειαν τὸ αὐτὸ πιστὸν ἅμα καὶ ἄπιστον ποιήσουσιν. ἐκτὸς εἰ μή τι φήσουσι μὴ τὴν αὐτὴν συν- ήθειαν ἐκβάλλειν ἄμα καὶ προσίεσθαι, ἀλλʼ ὅλην μὲν ἐκ- βάλλειν ἄλλην δέ προσίεσθαι. ὅπερ καὶ λέγουσιν οἱ ἀπὸ Πινδαρίωνος. ἀναλογία, φασίν, ὁμολογουμένως ἐκ τῆς συνηθείας ὁρμᾶται· ἔστι γὰρ ὁμοίου τε καὶ ἀνομοίου θεω- ρία,
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Thus, by rejecting custom through custom, they will make the same thing at once trustworthy and untrustworthy. Unless, perhaps, they say that they do not simultaneously reject and accept the same custom, but reject one custom and accept another. This is also what the followers of Pindarion say. Analogy, they say, admittedly proceeds from custom, for it is the study of similarity and dissimilarity.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Ainsi, en rejetant l’usage au moyen de l’usage, ils rendront la même chose à la fois digne et indigne de foi. À moins qu’ils ne disent ne pas rejeter et admettre le même usage, mais rejeter l’un et en admettre un autre. C’est précisément ce que disent les disciples de Pindarion. L’analogie, disent-ils, part incontestablement de l’usage, car elle est considération du semblable et du dissemblable.
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