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Sextus Empiricus
Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the Learned Section 42
Section 475 of 757
Canonical reference 3.42
Ancient Greek
Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc
ὁτὲ μὲν αὐξητικῶς ὁτὲ δέ μειωτικῶς, οἷον ἀπὸ τῶν κοινῶν ἀνθρώπων, οἷοι νῦν βροτοί εἰσιν, παραυξητικῶς μὲν ἐνοήσαμεν Κύκλωπα, ὃς οὐκ ἐῴκει ἀνδρί γε σιτοφάγῳ ἀλλὰ ῥίῳ ὑλήεντι, (Hom. ι 191) μειωτικῶς δὲ τὸν πυγμαῖον ἄνθρωπον, ὃς οὐχ ὑπέπεσεν ἡμῖν περιπτωτικῶς.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
sometimes by increase and sometimes by diminution. Thus, from ordinary human beings, such as mortals now are, by proportional increase we conceived a Cyclops, who “was not like a bread-eating man, but a wooded mountain peak” (Homer, Odyssey 9.191), and by diminution a pygmy human being, who has not encountered us directly.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
tantôt par augmentation, tantôt par diminution. À partir des hommes ordinaires, tels que sont aujourd’hui les mortels, nous avons conçu par augmentation le Cyclope, qui «ne ressemblait pas à un homme mangeur de pain, mais à une cime boisée» (Homère, Odyssée IX, 191), et par diminution le pygmée, que nous n’avons pas rencontré directement.
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