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Sextus Empiricus
Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the Learned Section 13
Section 333 of 757
Canonical reference 2.13
Ancient Greek
Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc
καὶ μὴν ἐπεὶ πᾶσα τέχνη ἤτοι ἑστηκὸς ἔχει τὸ τέλος καὶ πάγιον, ὡς φιλοσοφία καὶ γραμματική, ἢ τοῦ ὡς τὸ πολὺ ἐχόμενον, καθάπερ ἰατρική τε καὶ κυβερνητική, δεήσει καὶ τὴν ῥητορικήν, εἴπερ ἐστὶ τέχνη, τὸ ἕτερον τούτων ἐπ- αγγέλλεσθαι.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Moreover, since every art either has a fixed and stable end, like philosophy and grammar, or an end attained for the most part, like medicine and navigation, rhetoric too, if it is an art, must profess one or the other of these.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
En outre, puisque tout art possède soit une fin stable et fixe, comme la philosophie et la grammaire, soit une fin atteinte le plus souvent, comme la médecine et la navigation, la rhétorique devra elle aussi, si elle est un art, promettre l’une ou l’autre de ces fins.
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