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Sextus Empiricus

Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the Learned Section 8

Section 557 of 757

Canonical reference 4.8

Ancient Greek

Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc

ἀλλὰ γὰρ τούτων οὕτως ἐχόντων, καὶ κατὰ τὴν ἀρχῆθεν ὑπόθεσιν τεσσάρων ὄντων ἀριθμῶν, τοῦ τε ἑνὸς καὶ δύο καὶ τρία καὶ τέσσαρα, ἐν οἷς ἐλέγο- μεν καὶ τὴν τῆς ψυχῆς ἰδέαν περιέχεσθαι κατὰ τὸν ἐν- αρμόνιον λόγον, ὁ μὲν τέσσαρα τοῦ δύο καὶ ὁ δύο τῆς μονάδος ἐστὶ διπλασίων, ἐν ᾧ ἔκειτο ἡ διὰ πασῶν συμ- φωνία,

English AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Such being the case, and the original assumption comprising four numbers, one, two, three, and four, in which we said that the form of the soul is also contained according to harmonic ratio, four is double two and two is double the unit, and in the double ratio lay the concord of the octave.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Cela étant, et puisque, suivant l’hypothèse initiale, il existe quatre nombres, un, deux, trois et quatre, dans lesquels nous disions que l’idée de l’âme est elle aussi comprise selon le rapport harmonique, quatre est le double de deux, et deux le double de l’unité, rapport dans lequel réside la consonance d’octave.

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