* Sextus Empiricus ( 3rd century AD )

According to Sextus Empiricus, Anaxarchus " compared existing things to a scene-painting and supposed them to resemble the impressions experienced in sleep or madness.

The earliest extant version of this trilemma appears in the writings of the skeptic Sextus Empiricus.

Pyrrhonism was a school of skepticism founded by Aenesidemus in the first century BC and recorded by Sextus Empiricus in the late 2nd century or early 3rd century AD.

Sextus Empiricus ( c. A. D. 200 ), the main authority for Greek skepticism, developed the position further, incorporating aspects of empiricism into the basis for asserting knowledge.

* Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, R. G.

The argument is usually attributed to Sextus Empiricus, and has been restated by Agrippa as part of what has become known as " Agrippa's Trilemma ".

The earliest extant version of this trilemma appears in the writings of the skeptic Sextus Empiricus.

Works of Athenagoras, Aristotle, and Aeschylus appeared in 1557 ; Diodorus Siculus, 1559 ; Xenophon, 1561 ; Sextus Empiricus, 1562 ; Thucydides, 1564 ; Herodotus, both 1566 and 1581 ; and Sophocles, in 1568.

Unlike with Aristotle, we have no complete works by the Megarians or the early Stoics, and have to rely mostly on accounts ( sometimes hostile ) by later sources, including prominently Diogenes Laertius, Sextus Empiricus, Galen, Aulus Gellius, Alexander of Aphrodisias and Cicero.

Sextus Empiricus refers three times to a debate between Diodorus and Philo.

He must have lived after Sextus Empiricus ( c. 200 AD ), whom he mentions, and before Stephanus of Byzantium and Sopater ( c. 500 AD ), who quote him.

Solipsism is first recorded with the Greek presocratic sophist, Gorgias ( c. 483 – 375 BC ) who is quoted by the Roman skeptic Sextus Empiricus as having stated:

( See Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, Book I, Chapter 13, ' What is thought ( noumena ) is opposed to what appears or is perceived ( phenomena ).

Today Pyrrho's ideas are known mainly through the book Outlines of Pyrrhonism written by the Greek physician Sextus Empiricus.

None of his works survive except where he is quoted by others, mainly Sextus Empiricus

The lines were much quoted in antiquity, as for example by Stobaeus and Sextus Empiricus, and it was imitated by later poets, such as Sophocles and Bacchylides.

) Pyrrho, Sextus Empiricus

" There are two ways of reconciling the difficulty: either we may suppose him to have thrown out such aphorisms as an exercise for his pupils, as Sextus Empiricus, who calls him a Sceptic, would have us believe ; or he may have really doubted the esoteric meaning of Plato, and have supposed himself to have been stripping his works of the figments of the Dogmatists, while he was in fact taking from them all certain principles.

In this work, Descartes tackles the problem of skepticism, which had previously been studied by Sextus Empiricus, Al-Ghazali and Michel de Montaigne.

Pyrrhonian skeptic Sextus Empiricus first questioned the validity of inductive reasoning, positing that a universal rule could not be established from an incomplete set of particular instances.

Very little is known about him as none of his works have survived, though he has been mentioned and discussed in detail by Photius ( in his Myriobiblion ) and Sextus Empiricus, and also to a lesser extent by Diogenes Laertius and Philo of Alexandria.

Having reached this conclusion, he was able to assimilate the physical theory of Heraclitus, as is explained in the Hypoiyposes of Sextus Empiricus.

Sextus Empiricus ( c. 160-210 AD ), was a physician and philosopher, and has been variously reported to have lived in Alexandria, Rome, or Athens.

Sextus Empiricus raised concerns which applied to all types of knowledge.

Sextus Empiricus's three known works are the Outlines of Pyrrhonism ( Πυῤῥώνειοι ὑποτύπωσεις or Pyrrhōneioi hypotypōseis, thus commonly abbreviated PH ), and two distinct works preserved under the same title, Against the Mathematicians ( Adversus Mathematicos ), one of which is probably incomplete.

An influential Latin translation of Sextus's " Outlines " was published by Henricus Stephanus in Geneva in 1562, and this was followed by a complete Latin Sextus with Gentian Hervet as translator in 1569.

* Sextus Empiricus, Sextus Empiricus I: Outlines of Pyrrhonism.

* Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism.

* Sextus Empiricus, The Skeptic Way: Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism.

available online ( comment on Sextus Empiricus ’ “ Outlines of Pyrrhonism ” in German language )

* Mates, Benson, The Skeptic Way: Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism.

* Excerpts from the " Outlines of Pyrrhonism " by Sextus Empiricus

These tropes are given by Sextus Empiricus, in his Outlines of Pyrrhonism.

* Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism

* Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism ( at Project Gutenberg ; includes translation of first book of the Pyrrhonic Sketches )

His 1960 work The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes introduced previously unrecognised influence on Western thought in the seventeenth century, the Pyrrhonian Scepticism of Sextus Empiricus.

That same year she appointed Sextus Afranius Burrus as the head of the Praetorian Guard, replacing the previous head of the Praetorian Guard, Rufrius Crispinus.

Pompey's two sons, Gnaeus and Sextus, and the Pompeian faction, led now by Metellus Scipio and Cato, survived and fought for their cause in the name of Pompey the Great.

* Sextus Aurelius Victor De Caesaribus ( ca.

29. 4-5 in Liber de Caesaribus of Sextus Aurelius Victor, critical edition by H. W. Bird, Liverpool University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-85323-218-0

Antony complained that Octavian had exceeded his powers in deposing Lepidus, in taking over the countries held by Sextus Pompeius, in enlisting soldiers for himself without sending half to him.

Octavian complained that Antony had no authority for being in Egypt ; that his execution of Sextus Pompeius was illegal ; that his treachery to the king of Armenia disgraced the Roman name ; that he had not sent half the proceeds of the spoils to Rome according to his agreement ; that his connection with Cleopatra and the acknowledgment of Caesarion as a legitimate son of Julius Caesar were a degradation of his office and a menace to himself.

This was followed by the Liber Sextus ( 1298 ) of Boniface VIII, the Clementines ( 1317 ) of Clement V, the Extravagantes Joannis XXII and the Extravagantes Communes, all of which followed the same structure as the Liber Extra.

* a commentary called the Mercuriales on the Regula iuris in the Liber Sextus ( 1298 ) of Boniface VIII.

" – Sextus the Pythagorean.

The oldest extant reference to Sextus is by Origen in the third century of the common era.

After Vespasian secured the empire, his first two appointments as governor, Quintus Petillius Cerialis and Sextus Julius Frontinus, took on the task of subduing the Brigantes and Silures respectively.

1175-1280 ( c. 250 BC ); Bibliotheca 1. 9. 19, 2. 7. 7 ( 140 BC ); Sextus Propertius, Elegies, i. 20. 17ff ( 50 – 15 BC ); Ovid, Ibis, 488 ( AD 8 – 18 ); Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, I. 110, III. 535, 560, IV. 1-57 ( 1st century ); Hyginus, Fables, 14.