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Sextus Empiricus

Against the Professors, Books I-VI of Against the Learned Section 27

Section 610 of 757

Canonical reference 5.27

Ancient Greek

Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc

ἐστὶ τοιαύτη· ἀνάλογος δʼ ἔοικεν εἶναι καὶ καθʼ ἣν τὸν ἐφʼ ἑκάστης γενέσεως ὡρο |σκόπον ἀρχικῶς παρατετηρηκέναι λέγουσιν. νύκτωρ μὲν γὰρ ὁ Χαλδαῖος, φασίν, ἐφ᾿ ὑψηλῆς τινος ἀκρωρείας ἐκα- θέζετο ἀστεροσκοπῶν, ἕτερος δὲ παρήδρευε τῇ ὠδινούσῃ μέχρις ἀποτέξαιτο,

English AI-generated translation, non-official

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

The procedure by which they say they originally observed the Ascendant at each birth appears to be analogous. At night, they say, the Chaldean sat upon a high peak watching the stars, while another person attended the woman in labor until she gave birth.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Semblable paraît être celle par laquelle ils disent avoir primitivement observé l’horoscope de chaque naissance. La nuit, disent-ils, le Chaldéen s’asseyait sur un sommet élevé pour observer les astres, tandis qu’un autre se tenait auprès de la femme en travail jusqu’à son accouchement.

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