# Adversus mathematicos 266

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sextus-empiricus/adversus-mathematicos/266

πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ καὶ κύνα πάντες ἴσμεν, ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ κύων ἄνθρωπος· καὶ ἵππον πάντες ἴσμεν καὶ φυτόν, ἀλλ’ οὐδὲν τούτων ἦν ἄνθρωπος. εἶτα καὶ τὸ ζητούμενον συνήρπασεν· οὐδεὶς γὰρ ἐκ προχείρου δώσει γινώσκεσθαι τὸν ἄνθρωπον ὁποῖός ἐστιν, εἴγε ὁ Πύθιος ὧς μέγιστον ζήτημα προύθηκεν αὐτῷ τὸ “ γνῶθι σαυτόν”. εἰ δὲ καὶ δοίη, οὐ πᾶσιν ἀλλὰ τοῖς ἀκριβεστάτοις τῶν φιλοσόφων ἐπιτρέψει μόνον τοῦτον ἐπίστασθαι.

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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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