# Adversus mathematicos 264

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sextus-empiricus/adversus-mathematicos/264

οὐκ ἄρα καταληπτὸς πάντως ἐστὶν ὁ ἄνθρωπος· ᾧ ἕπεται τὴν τῆς ἀληθείας γνῶσιν ἀνεύρετον ὑπάρχειν. τοῦ γνωρίζοντος αὐτὴν ἀκαταλήπτου καθεστῶτος. εὐθέως γὰρ τῶν περὶ τῆς ἐπινοίας ζητησάντων Σωκράτης μὲν ἠπόρησε μείνας ἐν τῇ σκέψει καὶ εἰπὼν αὐτὸν ἀγνοεῖν τί τ’ ἔστι καὶ πῶς ἔχει πρὸς τὸ σύμπαν· ‘‘ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐκ οἶδα”, φησίν (Plat. Phaedr. 230 A), ‘‘εἴτε ἄνθρωπός εἰμι εἴτε καὶ ἄλλο τι θηρίον Τυφῶνος πολυπλοκώτερον.”

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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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