# In Aristotelis sophisticos elenchos paraphrasis 27

Anonymi In Aristotelis Sophisticos Elenchos, In Aristotelis sophisticos elenchos paraphrasis, Chapter 27. Ancient Greek.

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27. τοὺς δὲ παρὰ τὸ αἰτεῖσθαι καὶ λαμβάνειν τὸ ἐν ἀρχῇ πυνθανομένω μέν, ἂν ᾖ δῆλον, οὐ δοτέον, οὐδ’ ἄν ἔνδοξον ᾖ, λέγοντα τἀληθές, οἷον εἰ δέοι λαβεῖν ἄψυχόν τι ζῶον καὶ ἐρωτᾷ, εἰ τὸ βιβλίον διδάσκει, οὐ δεῖ σε συγχωρεῖν τὴν ἀρχήν· λαβὼν γὰρ συμπερανεῖ, εἴπερ τὸ διδάσκον ἔμψυχον καὶ ἄνθρωπος· ἢ ἡ ψυχὴ ἀθάνατος, ὅτι ἄφθαρτος. ἀλλ’ εἰ μὲν ᾖ δῆλον, οὕτως ἀποκρίνεσθαι χρή· ἄν δὲ λαβὼν τὸ ἐν ἀρχῇ συλλογίσηται τὴν ἀντίφασιν διὰ τὴν μοχθηρίαν τῶν τοιούτων λόγων, εἰς τὸν ἐρωτῶντα μεταστρεπτέον τὴν μέμψιν ὡς οὐ καλῶς διειλεγμένον· ὁ γὰρ ἔλεγχος ἄνευ τοῦ ἐξ ἀρχῆς. ἔτι ῥητέον ὡς δέδοται οὐχ ὡς τούτῳ χρησομένου, ἀλλ᾿ ὡς πρὸς τοῦτο συλλογιουμένου τοὐναντίον ἢ ἐπὶ τῶν παρεξελέγχων ἔχει.

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Anonymi in Aristotelis Sophisticos Elenchos, In Aristotelis sophisticos elenchos paraphrasis, ed. Michael Hayduck. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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