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Cicero, Academica, 2.16
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1. Cicero, Academica, 1.44, 2.15 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.44. Tum ego Cum Zenone inquam “ut accepimus Arcesilas sibi omne certamen instituit, non pertinacia aut studio vincendi ut quidem mihi quidem mihi *gp videtur, sed earum rerum obscuritate, quae ad confessionem ignorationis adduxerant Socratem et vel ut iam ante et iam ante Dav. ad Lact. epit. 32 et ueluti amantes *g*d Socratem Democritum Anaxagoram Empedoclem omnes paene veteres, qui nihil cognosci nihil percipi nihil sciri posse dixerunt, angustos sensus imbecillos inbecilles p 1 sgf animos brevia curricula vitae et et om. sgf ut Democritus cf. p. 43, 13 in profundo veritatem esse demersam, demersam gfx dim- smnp m diuersam *d opinionibus et institutis omnia teneri, nihil veritati ueritate *g relinqui, deinceps deinceps denique Bentl. densis IACvHeusde ' Cic. filopla/twn ' ( 1836 ) 236 n. 1 omnia tenebris circumfusa esse dixerunt. cf. Lact. inst. 3, 4, 11. 28, 12 s. 30, 6 Democr. fr. 117 Deiels Emped. fr. 2 D. ( Kranz Herm. 47, 29 n. 2 )
2. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 4.32, 9.51, 9.61 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

4.32. He also attended the lectures of the geometer Hipponicus, at whom he pointed a jest as one who was in all besides a listless, yawning sluggard but yet proficient in his subject. Geometry, he said, must have flown into his mouth while it was agape. When this man's mind gave way, Arcesilaus took him to his house and nursed him until he was completely restored. He took over the school on the death of Crates, a certain Socratides having retired in his favour. According to some, one result of his suspending judgement on all matters was that he never so much as wrote a book. Others relate that he was caught revising some works of Crantor, which according to some he published, according to others he burnt. He would seem to have held Plato in admiration, and he possessed a copy of his works. 9.51. Protagoras was the first to maintain that there are two sides to every question, opposed to each other, and he even argued in this fashion, being the first to do so. Furthermore he began a work thus: Man is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, and of things that are not that they are not. He used to say that soul was nothing apart from the senses, as we learn from Plato in the Theaetetus, and that everything is true. In another work he began thus: As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life. 9.61. 11. PYRRHOPyrrho of Elis was the son of Pleistarchus, as Diocles relates. According to Apollodorus in his Chronology, he was first a painter; then he studied under Stilpo's son Bryson: thus Alexander in his Successions of Philosophers. Afterwards he joined Anaxarchus, whom he accompanied on his travels everywhere so that he even forgathered with the Indian Gymnosophists and with the Magi. This led him to adopt a most noble philosophy, to quote Ascanius of Abdera, taking the form of agnosticism and suspension of judgement. He denied that anything was honourable or dishonourable, just or unjust. And so, universally, he held that there is nothing really existent, but custom and convention govern human action; for no single thing is in itself any more this than that.
3. Eusebius of Caesarea, Preparation For The Gospel, 14.6.4-14.6.6, 14.6.12-14.6.13 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

4. Augustine, Contra Academicos, 3.38 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
academics, the academy Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 102, 109
academy, new Tarrant et al, Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity (2018) 68
academy, old Tarrant et al, Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity (2018) 68
aenesidemus Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 109
antiochus of ascalon Tarrant et al, Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity (2018) 68
arcesilaus Tarrant et al, Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity (2018) 68
argument on both sides Tarrant et al, Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity (2018) 68
argument pro and contra Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 109
aristo Tarrant et al, Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity (2018) 68
aristo of chios Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 102
athens, athenians Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 102
augustine Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 102
carneades Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 109; Tarrant et al, Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity (2018) 68
cicero, on academic sceptics Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 102, 109
cicero (academic allegiance) Tarrant et al, Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity (2018) 68
clitomachus Tarrant et al, Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity (2018) 68
decleva caizzi, f. Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 109
determinism, dialectic Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 102, 109
dialogue-form Tarrant et al, Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity (2018) 68
diodorus cronus Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 102
epoche Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 109
katalepsis, kataleptic impression Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 102
lacydes Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 109
literary reception Tarrant et al, Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity (2018) 68
numenius Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 102
philo of larisa Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 102
plato Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 102
platonism, platonists Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 102
protagoras Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 109
ratio Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 109
scepticism, academic Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 109
scepticism, pyrrhonean Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 102, 109
skeptics, academic Tarrant et al, Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity (2018) 68
socrates, influence on scepticism Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 102, 109
soul' Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 102
stoicism, stoics, epistemology of Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 102
virtues Tarrant et al, Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plato in Antiquity (2018) 68
zeno of citium, and arcesilaus Long, From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy (2006) 102