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Sextus Empiricus

Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the Learned Section 231

Section 231 of 757

Canonical reference 1.231

Ancient Greek

Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc

καὶ πάλιν ὅταν λέγητε τὸν βαρβαρισμὸν πα- ράπτωσιν ἐν ἁπλῇ λέξει παρὰ τὴν συνήθειαν, ἀνταπορή- σομεν λέγοντες ποίαν φατέ πολλῶν οὐσῶν, καὶ ᾖ ἂν εἴ- πητε, ταύτῃ φήσομεν καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀκολουθεῖν.

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

Again, whenever you say that barbarism is an error in a single word contrary to custom, we shall return the difficulty by asking which custom you mean, since there are many. Whichever you name, we too shall say that we follow it.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Et lorsque vous dites que le barbarisme est une faute dans un mot simple contre l’usage, nous vous demanderons en retour de quel usage vous parlez, puisqu’il en existe plusieurs; quel que soit celui que vous indiquerez, nous dirons que nous le suivons nous aussi.

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