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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,

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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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