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Sextus Empiricus

Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the Learned Section 95

Section 95 of 757

Canonical reference 1.95

Ancient Greek

Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc

καὶ γὰρ ἡ τῶν ποιητῶν ἐπίσκεψις σὐ χωρίς τοῦ τεχνικοῦ καὶ ἱστορικοῦ γίνεται μέρους, καὶ ἑκάτερον τούτων οὐ δίχα τῆς τῶν ἄλλων πα- ραπλοκῆς συνέστηκεν. ὥσπερ οὖν οἱ λέγοντες τῆς ἰατρικῆς μέρη δίαιταν χειρουργίαν φαρμακείαν οὕτω λέγουσιν ὡς πολλῆς οὔσης ἐν τοῖς θεωρήμασιν ἀλληλουχίας (καὶ γὰρ ἡ δίαιτα οὐ χωρὶς φαρμακείας καὶ χειρουργίας πρό[σ ]εισι, καὶ ἡ φαρμακεία πάλιν περιείχετο καὶ τῇ τῶν ἄλλων δυ- νάμει), ὧδε καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος οὐκ ἀπότακτόν τί ἐστιν ἕκαστον μέρος, οὐδʼ εἰλικρινές ἀπὸ τῆς τῶν ἄλλων ἐπι- μιξίας.

English AI-generated translation, non-official

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

The examination of poets cannot proceed without the technical and historical parts, and neither of these is constituted apart from its interweaving with the others. Thus, when people say that the parts of medicine are regimen, surgery, and pharmacy, they speak in this way because the principles are extensively interconnected. Regimen proceeds not without pharmacy and surgery, and pharmacy in turn is also encompassed by the power of the others. So too in the present case, each part is neither detached nor pure from admixture with the others.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

L’examen des poètes ne se fait pas sans les parties technique et historique, et aucune de ces dernières ne se constitue sans être entrelacée aux autres. Lorsqu’on dit que les parties de la médecine sont la diététique, la chirurgie et la pharmacologie, on le dit en raison de la grande interdépendance de leurs théorèmes. La diététique ne procède pas sans pharmacologie ni chirurgie, et la pharmacologie participe à son tour de la puissance des autres parties. De même ici, aucune partie n’est isolée ni pure de tout mélange avec les autres.

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