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Sextus Empiricus
Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the Learned Section 102
Section 422 of 757
Canonical reference 2.102
Ancient Greek
Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc
ἤτοι δέ ἐπὶ τοῖς μὴ οὖσιν ἀγαθοῖς δοκοῦσι δὲ εἶναι, ἢ ἐπὶ τοῖς κατ’ ἀλήθειαν οὖσιν ἐγκωμιάσει ὁ ῥήτωρ. οὔτε δὲ ἐπὶ τοῖς μὴ οὗσι, προσδιαφθείρει γὰρ τοὺς ἐγκωμιαζομένους, οὔτε ἐπὶ τοῖς οὖσιν· ἀγνοεῖ γὰρ ταῦτα, ὅτε καὶ τοῖς φιλοσό- φοις διὰ τὴν ἀνεπίκριτον περὶ αὐτῶν μάχην ἐστὶν ἀκατά- ληπτα.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
The rhetorician will praise either things that are not goods but seem to be, or things that truly are goods. He cannot praise the things that are not, for he further corrupts those whom he praises; nor the things that are, for he is ignorant of them, since they are inapprehensible even to philosophers because of their undecided conflict concerning them.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Le rhéteur louera soit pour des choses qui ne sont pas des biens mais paraissent l’être, soit pour celles qui sont véritablement des biens. Il ne louera pas pour les premières, car il corrompt davantage ceux qu’il loue; ni pour les secondes, car il les ignore, puisqu’elles sont même insaisissables aux philosophes en raison de leur conflit indécidable à leur sujet.
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