# Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the Learned

- Identifiant : `sextus_empiricus.against_professors`
- Auteur : Sextus Empiricus
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## Passage 2.98

### Ancient Greek

θορυβησάντων δὲ τῶν δικαστῶν ὡς δίκαια λέγοντος αὐτοῦ, παραλαβὼν τοὺς λόγους ὁ νεανίας τῷ αὐτῷ ἐπιχειρήματι, μηδὲν μεταθείς, ἐχρῆτο ῾ἐάν τε ʼ γὰρ ῾νικήσωʼ φησὶν ῾ἐάν τε νικηθῶ, οὐκ ὀφείλω τὸν μισθὸν ἀποδοῦναι Κόρακι, νική- σας μὲν ὅτι ἐνίκησα, λειφθεὶς δὲ κατὰ τὸν τῆς συμφωνίας λόγον ὑπεσχόμην γὰρ ἀποδώσειν τὸν μισθὸν ἐὰν τὴν πρώτην νικήσω δίκην, λειφθεὶς δὲ οὐκ ἀποδώσω.’

### English

When the judges applauded Corax as speaking justly, the young man took up the argument and, changing nothing, used the same reasoning. “Whether I win,” he said, “or am defeated, I do not owe Corax the fee. If I win, because I have won; if I lose, under the terms of the agreement, for I promised to pay the fee if I won my first lawsuit, but if I lose I shall not pay it.”

### French

Les juges faisant grand bruit parce que Corax semblait parler justement, le jeune homme reprit ses paroles et employa exactement le même argument: «Que je gagne ou que je sois vaincu, dit-il, je ne dois pas verser les honoraires à Corax. Si je gagne, parce que j’ai gagné; si je perds, selon les termes de l’accord, car j’ai promis de les verser si je gagnais mon premier procès, mais, vaincu, je ne les verserai pas.»