Troad.° The latter, as we learn from the history of Phylarchus, was a man of such unflinching courage that, although unjustly accused, he patiently suffered a traitor's death, without so much as deigning to speak one word to his fellow-citizens. Euphranor had as pupil Eubulus of Alexandria Eubulus taught Ptolemy, and he again Sarpedon and Heraclides ; Heraclides again taught Aenesidemus of Cnossus, the compiler of eight books of Pyrrhonean discourses ; the latter was the instructor of Zeuxippus his fellow-citizen, he of Zeuxis of the angular foot (yiDVLoirovi, Cruickshank), he again of Antiochus of Laodicea on the Lycus, who had as pupils Menodotus of Nicomedia, an empiric physician, and Theiodas of Laodicea ; Menodotus was the instructor of Herodotus of Tarsus, son of Arieus, and Herodotus taught Sextus Empiricus, who wrote ten books on Scepticism, and other fine works. Sextus taught Saturninus called Cythenas, 5 another empiricist. 6 Possibly KvdaOrjvaievs, i.e. a member of the well-known Attic deme, into which even Italians with such names as Saturninus might, penetrate under the cosmopolitan empire of the Severi.
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Aenesidemus — a candidate entry Heraclides — a candidate entry Ptolemy — a candidate entry Tarsus — a candidate entry
Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume II (Books VI-X), Diogenes Laertius — translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925
Apparatus shelf — Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. II (R. D. Hicks translation, Loeb L185) · R. D. Hicks, Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann / New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, MCMXXV (1925)
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