By A. A. Long, D. N. Sedley
Quantity I provides the texts in new translations by way of the authors, and those are followed via a philosophical and ancient remark designed to be used by means of all readers, together with people with no history within the classical global. With its thesaurus and indexes, this quantity can stand by myself as an self sustaining software of research.
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Epicurus, one of Pyrrho's admirers (IB 2), also promises freedom from disturbance (cf. 21B I; 25B), and identifies the 'empty desires' which originate from 'empty opinion' as principal threats to its realization (see 21B I, E 3, G 4, W, X). The Stoic sage, like the Pyrrhonist, does not opine (cf. 40D 1; 4 1 C i - 5 , D 2 , G), and the passions, from which he is totally free, are false opinions or mistaken judgements, on Chrysippus' analysis (65B—D, K, L). But Stoic and Epicurean checks on unfounded opinion have nothing to do with scepticism.
1 8 . 1 7 ; Timon fr. 782, Caizzi 57, part) [Timon saysj Truly, no other mortal could rival Pyrrho. B Aristocles (Eusebius 1 4 . 1 8 . 1 9 ; Timon fr. 64 (Timon fr. 822, Caizzi 60) Moreover, Pyrrho had many admirers of his unconcernedness, so that Timon speaks of him thus in his Pytho and in his Silloi: ' O old man, O Pyrrho, how and whence did you discover escape from servitude to the opinions and empty theorizing of sophists? How did you unloose the 1 shackles of every deception a n d persuasion?
For further relevant texts, see 5 B 3 ; ISA 3-4, F 3 . 445—82 (1) Therefore no third substance beside void and bodies can be left in the sum of things, neither one that could fall under o u r senses at any time nor one that anyone could grasp by the mind's reasoning. (2) For all things w h i c h are spoken o f y o u will find to be either fixed attributes of these t w o o r accidents o f them. (3) A fixed attribute is that which can at n o point be separated a n d r e m o v e d w i t h o u t fatal destruction resulting — as weight is to stones, heat to fire, liquidity to water, tangibility to all bodies, and intangibility to void, (4) B y contrast slavery, poverty, wealth, freedom, war, peace, and all the other things whose arrival and departure a thing's nature survives intact, these it is o u r practice to call, quite properly, accidents.