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Sextus Empiricus
Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the Learned Section 98
Section 98 of 757
Canonical reference 1.98
Ancient Greek
Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc
οὐκ ὀλίγην δέ ἂν ἔχοι μοῖραν εἰς προτροπὴν καὶ ὅταν βλέπωμεν τοὺς μηδὲ δύο σχεδὸν ῥήματα δεξιῶς εἴρειν δυναμένους γραμματι- κοὺς θέλοντας ἕκαστον τῶν μέγα δυνηθέντων ἐν εὐφρα- δεία καὶ ἑλληνισμῷ παλαιῶν, καθάπερ Θουκυδίδην Πλά- τωνα Δημοσθένην, ὡς βάρβαρον ἐλέγχειν. μία γὰρ ἀντὶ πάντων ἄμυνα γενήσεται πρὸς αὐτούς, ἐὰν τὴν ψευδώνυ- μον αὐτῶν .
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
A considerable additional incentive arises when we see grammarians who can scarcely string together two words properly wishing to convict every ancient author who achieved greatness in eloquence and correct Greek, such as Thucydides, Plato, and Demosthenes, of writing barbarously. There will be one defense against them all, if we demonstrate that their falsely named technical doctrine is without art.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Nous trouverons encore un puissant encouragement lorsque nous verrons des grammairiens à peine capables d’enchaîner correctement deux mots vouloir convaincre de barbarisme chacun des anciens qui excellèrent dans l’éloquence et la correction du grec, tels Thucydide, Platon et Démosthène. Il y aura contre eux une seule défense qui vaudra pour toutes, si nous montrons que leur prétendue théorie technique
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