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Aristocles' refutations of Pyrrhonism (Eus. PE 14.18.1–10)*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2013

James Warren
James Warren
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Magdalene College, Cambridge
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It has been generally agreed for some time that the best piece of extant evidence for Pyrrho's thought is contained in a section of Eusebius' Praeparatio evangelica (14.18.1–4 = T53 Decleva Caizzi) where Eusebius cites Aristocles of Messene's πεϱὶ ϕιλοσοϕίας book eight, where Aristocles in turn cites Timon on Pyrrho. But there the agreement stops. The wealth of recent writing on this very short passage provides evidence of its difficulty. Ausland, Bett, Brennan, Brunschwig, and Stopper have all within the last ten years or so offered their own various interpretations of these dozen lines of Greek text.

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Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society (Second Series) , Volume 46 , 2001 , pp. 140 - 164
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Copyright © The Author(s). Published online by Cambridge University Press 2001

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