Note 6 — BOOK X SUMMARIES, AND THE WORD OF TRUTH
Francis Legge translation
From here to the end of the section on p. 479 Cr., is a copy from Sextus Empiricus’ work, Adversus Physicos, c. 10. So close is this that we are able by its aid to correct by it the faulty text of Sextus, and vice versâ. Sextus, as a sceptic, was of course as much opposed to the study of nature as Hippolytus, and was therefore only interested in showing the discrepancies among its teachers. But how does this make the quotation from him an “epitome”?