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Sextus Empiricus

Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the Learned Section 60

Section 380 of 757

Canonical reference 2.60

Ancient Greek

Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc

Τὸ νῦν δέ μετελθόντες καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ τέλους τῆς ῥη- τορικῆς ποιώμεθα τὰς ἐνστάσεις. πάλιν τοίνυν λεκτέον ὡς εἰ μηδέν ἐστι ῥητορικῆς τέλος, οὐδέν ἐστι ῥητορικὴ διὰ τὸ πᾶσαν τεχνικὴν ἕξιν πρός τι τέλος λαμβόνειν τὴν ἀνα- φοράν. οὐχὶ δέ γε ἔστι τι ῥητορικῆς τέλος, ὡς δείξομεν· οὐκ ἄρα ἐστὶ τέχνη ἡ ῥητορική.

English AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Let us now proceed and raise objections based on the end of rhetoric. Once again, then, it must be said that if rhetoric has no end, rhetoric does not exist, because every technical disposition is directed toward some end. But rhetoric has no end, as we shall show. Therefore rhetoric is not an art.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Passons maintenant à la fin de la rhétorique et formulons aussi nos objections à partir d’elle. Il faut de nouveau dire que, s’il n’existe aucune fin de la rhétorique, la rhétorique n’existe pas, puisque toute disposition technique se rapporte à quelque fin. Or il n’existe aucune fin de la rhétorique, comme nous le montrerons. La rhétorique n’est donc pas un art.

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