Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Mary Mills Patrick
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in Greek writings. Then we have the well-known testimony of
Aristocles the Peripatetic in regard to Aenesidemus, that he taught Pyrrhonism in Alexandria[6]--[Greek: echthes kai proaen en Alexandreia tae kat' Aigypton Ainaesidaemos tis anazopyrein aerxato ton huthlon touton]. [1] Diog. XI. 12, 115, 116. [2] _Hyp_. I. 5. [3] _Hyp_. I. 36. [4] _Hyp_. I. 164. [5] Chaignet _Op. cit._ 45. [6] Aristocles of Euseb. _Praep. Ev._ XIV. E. 446. This was after the dogmatic tendency of the Academy under Antiochus and his followers had driven Pyrrhonism from the partial union with the Academy, which it had experienced after the breaking up of the school under the immediate successors of Timon. Aenesidemus taught about the time of our era in Alexandria, and established the school there anew; and his followers are spoken of in a way that presupposes their continuing in the same place. There is every reason to think that the connection of Sextus with Alexandria was an intimate one, not only because Alexandria had been for so long a time the seat of Pyrrhonism, but also from internal evidence from his writings and their subsequent historical influence; and yet the |
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