# Adversus mathematicos 114-3

Sextus Empiricus, Adversus mathematicos, <ΠΡΟΣ ΛΟΓΙΚΟΥΣ>. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sextus-empiricus/adversus-mathematicos/114-3

ἥτις αὐτὸν ὑποδεξαμένη ἐπαγγέλλεται δύο ταῦτα διδάξειν, ‘‘ἠμὲν Ἀληθείης εὐπειθέος ἀτρεμὲς ἦτορ”, ὅπερ ἐστὶ τὸ τῆς ἐπιστήμης ἀμετακίνητον βῆμα, ἕτερον δὲ ‘‘βροτῶν δόξας, ταῖς οὐκ ἔνι πίστις ἀληθής”, τουτέστι τὸ ἐν δόξῃ κείμενον πᾶν, ὅτι ἦν ἀβέβαιον. καὶ ἐπὶ τέλει προσ- διασαφεῖ τὸ μὴ δεῖν ταῖς αἰσθήσεσι προσέχειν ἀλλὰ τῷ λόγῳ· μὴ γάρ σε, φησίν, ‘‘ἔθος πολύπειρον ὁδὸν κάτα τήνδε βιάσθω νωμᾶν ἄσκοπον ὄμμα καὶ ἠχήεσσαν ἀκουὴν καὶ γλῶσσαν, κρῖναι δὲ λόγῳ πολύπειρον ἔλεγχον ἐξ ἐμέθεν ῤηθέντα”. Ἀλλ’ οὗτος μὲν καὶ αὐτός, ὧς ἐκ τῶν εἰρημένων συμ- φανές, τὸν ἐπιστημονικὸν λόγον κανόνα τῆς ἐν τοῖς οὖσιν ἀληθείας ἀναγορεύσας ἀπέστη τῆς τῶν αἰσθήσεων ἐπιστάσεως·

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Sextus Empiricus, Adversus mathematicos, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, Jürgen Mau. 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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