# Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes 2.27

Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes, Book 2, ε′ περὶ τοῦ ὑφ’ οὗ.. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sextus-empiricus/pyrrhoniae-hypotyposes/2.27

τά τε κείμενα ἐν τῷ ὅρῳ συμβεβηκότα ἤτοι κατ’ ἐνέργειαν λέγουσιν ἢ δυνάμει. εἰ μὲν οὖν κατ’ ἐνέργειαν, οὐκ ἔστιν ἄνθρωπος ὁ μὴ ἐπιστήμην ἤδη τελείαν ἀνειληφὼς καὶ ἐν τῷ λόγῳ τέλειος ὢν καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ ἀποθνῄσκειν καθεστώς· τοῦτο γὰρ τὸ ἐνεργείᾳ θνητόν ἐστιν. εἰ δὲ δυνάμει, οὐκ ἔσται ἄνθρωπος οὔτε ὁ τὸν λόγον ἔχων τέλειον οὔτε ὁ νοῦν καὶ ἐπιστήμην ἀνειληφώς· καὶ] τοῦτο δὲ τοῦ προτέρου ἐστὶν ἀτοπώτερον. καὶ ’ ravrrj ccqcc ἀσύστατος Ttecprjvev tj iTtlvoia rov ἀνθρώπου.

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Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann. 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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0544.tlg001.local001/.