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Sextus Empiricus
Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the Learned Section 63
Section 496 of 757
Canonical reference 3.63
Ancient Greek
Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc
οὐ μὴν ἀλλʼ εἴπερ αἱ δύο γραμμαὶ μία γίνονται, δεήσει τὰ παρατιθέμενα ἀλλή- λοις σώματα ἑνὶ ἄκρῳ ἐλάσσω εἶναι· γεγόνασι γὰρ αἱ δύο μία, ἥτις ἓν ἔχειν ὀφείλει πέρας τε καὶ ἄκρον. οὐχὶ δέ γε τὰ παρατιθέμενα ἀλλήλοις σώματα ἑνὶ ἄκρῳ γίνεται ἐλάσ- σονα, ὥστε αἱ δύο γραμμαὶ οὐκ ἂν γένοιντο μία γραμμή.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Moreover, if the two lines become one, the bodies placed beside one another will have to be smaller by one extremity. For the two have become one, which ought to have one boundary and extremity. But bodies placed beside one another do not become smaller by one extremity. Thus the two lines could not become one line.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Bien plus, si les deux lignes deviennent une, les corps placés l’un contre l’autre devront avoir une extrémité de moins. Car les deux sont devenues une seule ligne, qui doit avoir une seule limite et une seule extrémité. Or les corps placés l’un contre l’autre n’ont pas une extrémité de moins. Les deux lignes ne sauraient donc devenir une seule ligne.
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