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... Lucullus drew from a work by Philo , I cannot agree . I still hold that Cic . adapted to the needs of his dialogue a work or works by Clitomachus . The adaptations needed were slight . Some remarks on H.'s arguments will be found below ...
... Lucullus drew from a work by Philo , I cannot agree . I still hold that Cic . adapted to the needs of his dialogue a work or works by Clitomachus . The adaptations needed were slight . Some remarks on H.'s arguments will be found below ...
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... Lucullus and Brutus , more or less adhered to the views of Antiochus . It is improbable that Cicero at this time became acquainted with Aristus the brother of Antiochus , since in the Aca- demica ' he is mentioned in such a way as to ...
... Lucullus and Brutus , more or less adhered to the views of Antiochus . It is improbable that Cicero at this time became acquainted with Aristus the brother of Antiochus , since in the Aca- demica ' he is mentioned in such a way as to ...
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... Lucullus to prove that probability is suf- ficient to afford that stable basis for moral practice which he felt to be necessary . The New Academics generally took firmer ground in ethical matters than the Sceptics , and Cicero often ...
... Lucullus to prove that probability is suf- ficient to afford that stable basis for moral practice which he felt to be necessary . The New Academics generally took firmer ground in ethical matters than the Sceptics , and Cicero often ...
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... Lucullus near Cumae . It is rather surprising that under these circumstances there should be only one direct reference to the Hortensius in the Lucullus . The Academica in its original form was no doubt sent to Atticus very soon after ...
... Lucullus near Cumae . It is rather surprising that under these circumstances there should be only one direct reference to the Hortensius in the Lucullus . The Academica in its original form was no doubt sent to Atticus very soon after ...
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... Lucullus , though of noble birth , had no claim to be considered learned " . So little learning did they possess ... Lucullus , but he has merely adopted and improved upon the statements of Cicero in the in- troduction to the Lucullus ...
... Lucullus , though of noble birth , had no claim to be considered learned " . So little learning did they possess ... Lucullus , but he has merely adopted and improved upon the statements of Cicero in the in- troduction to the Lucullus ...
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Page 56 - Nature is always too strong for principle. And though a PYRRHONIAN may throw himself or others into a momentary amazement and confusion by his profound reasonings, the first and most trivial event in life will put to flight all his doubts and scruples, and leave him the same, in every point of action and speculation, with the philosophers of every other sect, or with those who never concerned themselves in any philosophical researches.
Page 198 - Quam multa vident pictores in umbris 10 et in eminentia, quae nos non videmus! quam multa, quae nos fugiunt in cantu, exaudiunt in eo genere exercitati! qui primo inflatu tibicinis Antiopam esse aiunt aut Andromacham, cum id nos ne suspicemur quidem.
Page 56 - It is a question of fact whether the perceptions of the senses be produced by external objects resembling them. How shall this question be determined? By experience, surely, as all other questions of a like nature. But here experience is and must be entirely silent. The mind has never anything present to it but the perceptions, and cannot possibly reach any experience of their connection with objects. The supposition of such a connection is, therefore, without any foundation in reasoning.
Page 269 - Speak to Him thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. God is law, say the wise; O Soul, and let us rejoice, For if He thunder by law, the thunder is yet His voice. Law is God, say some: no God at all, says the fool; For all we have power to see is a straight staff bent in a pool...
Page 56 - On the contrary, he must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge any thing, that all human life must perish, were his principles universally and steadily to prevail. All discourse, all action would immediately cease; and men remain in a total lethargy, till the necessities of nature, unsatisfied, put an end to their miserable existence.
Page 110 - Hic in omnibus fere sermonibus, qui ab iis, qui illum audierunt, perscripti varie copioseque sunt, ita disputat ut nihil adfirmet ipse, refellat alios, nihil se scire dicat nisi id ipsum, eoque praestare ceteris, quod illi, quae nesciant, scire se putent, ipse se nihil scire id unum sciat...
Page 158 - Itaque Arcesilas negabat esse quidquam quod sciri posset, ne illud quidem ipsum, quod Socrates sibi reliquisset : sic omnia latere censebat in occulto, neque esse...
Page 307 - Ac mihi videor nimis etiam nunc agere ieiune. Cum sit enim campus in quo exsultare possit oratio, cur earn tantas in angustias et Stoicorum dumeta compellimus ? Si enim mihi cum Peripatetico res esset, qui id percipi posse diceret ' quod impressum esset e vero...
Page 207 - Ergo, cum sit argumentum ratio probationem praestans, qua colligitur aliud per aliud, et quae, quod est dubium, per id, quod dubium non est, confirmât: necesse est esse aliquid in causa, quod probatione non egeat.
Page 236 - All A is B All B is C All C is D All D is E /. All A is E 20.