always giving different answers at different times, and is never definite or dogmatic about the answer. The maxims of the Seven Wise Men, too, they call sceptical; for instance, "Observe the Golden Mean," and " A pledge is a curse at one's elbow," meaning that whoever plights his troth steadfastly and trustfully brings a curse on his own head. Sceptically-minded, again, were Archilochus and Euripides, for Archilochus says a : Man's soul, O Glaucus, son of Leptines, Is but as one short day that Zeus sends down. And Euripides b : Great God ! how can they say poor mortal men Have minds and think ? Hang we not on thy will ? Do we not what it pleaseth thee to wish ? Furthermore, they find Xenophanes, Zeno of Elea, and Democritus to be sceptics : Xenophanes because he says, c Clear truth hath no man seen nor e'er shall know ; and Zeno because he would destroy motion, saying, " A moving body moves neither where it is nor where it is not " ; Democritus because he rejects qualities, saying, " Opinion says hot or cold, but the reality is atoms and empty space," and again, " Of a truth we know nothing, for truth is in a well." d Plato, too, leaves the truth to gods and sons of gods, and seeks after the probable explanations Euripides