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feather flock together". He was accustomed to tease in this way. He once
said to a man who wondered at everything, "Why are you not wondering
that we three have four eyes together," since he and his pupil Dioscurides
each had one eye, and the other man was normal. 115. Once when he
was asked by Arcesilaus why he had come there from Thebes, he said,
"To get a good laugh when I see you [people] arrayed before me."
Nevertheless, while attacking Arcesilaus in the Satires, he praised him
in his work titled The Funeral Feast for Arcesilaus.
He had no successor, according to Menodotus, and his school lapsed
until Ptolemy of Cyrene revived it. Hippobotus and Sotion, however,
say that Dioscurides of Cyprus, Nicolochus of Rhodes, Euphranor of
Seleucia, and Praulus of the Troad were his pupils. The last mentioned,
according to the history of Phylarchus, was a man of such endurance
that he submitted to unjust execution for treason, without saying one
word to condemn his fellow-citizens.- Eubulus of Alexandria was the pupil of Euphranor; Ptolemy was
the pupil of Eubulus; Sarpedon and Heraclides were the pupils of Ptol-
emy; Aenesidemus of Cnossus, who wrote eight books of Pyrrhonian
Arguments, was the pupil of Heraclides; Zeuxippus, also of Cnossus, was
the pupil of Aenesidemus; Zeuxis the club-footed, was the pupil of
Zeuxippus; Antioch us of Laodicea on the Lycus was the pupil of Zeuxis;
Menodotus ofNicomedia, an empirical physician and Theiodas ofLaodi-
cea were pupils of Antiochus; Herodotus of Tarsus, son of Arieus, was
the pupil of Menodotus; Sextus, the empirical physician, who wrote ten
books on scepticism and other fine works, was the pupil of Herodotus;
Saturninus Cythenas, himself an empirical [physician], was the pupil
of Sextus.
Aristocles in Eusebius Prep. Ev. 14.18 758cd [III-24]
(758c) It is necessary above all to consider the issue of our knowledge.
For if by nature we know nothing, there is no need to consider other
things. There were some ancients who uttered this expression, and Aris-
totle argued against them. Pyrrho of Elis gave a powerful exposition of
this view, but left no written treatment of it himself. His student Timon
says that he who is going to be happy must look to these three things:
(1) first, what things are like; (2) second, what our disposition ought to
be with respect to them; (758d) (3) and finally, what will be the result
for those who are so disposed. [Timon] says that [Pyrrho] declares that
things are equally indifferent and unmeasurable and undecidable, and
that for this reason neither our senses nor our opinions tell the truth or
lie; and so we ought not to put our trust in them but ought instead to