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Sextus and Empiricus
* 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.

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Meanwhile, the king's son, Sextus Tarquinius snuck away from the camp to Collatia, and raped Lucretia, a beautiful noblewoman, who consequently committed suicide.
However, it appears that some contemporary and later writers, such as the Christian author Lactantius, and Sextus Aurelius Victor ( who wrote about fifty years later and from uncertain sources ), misunderstood the Tetrarchic system in this respect, believing it to have involved a stricter division of territories between the four emperors.
* Sextus Julius Severus, governor of Britain, is sent to Judea ( from 136 renamed Syria Palaestina ) to quell a revolt.
Octavian calls Antony back to Rome from Alexandria in order to help him fight against Sextus Pompey, Menecrates, and Menas, three notorious pirates of the Mediterranean.
Apart from the change to the actor playing Ludicrus Sextus, there are some differences between the two series of Up Pompeii, the second series using noticeably fewer sets than the previous.
In 40 BC also it was attacked by Sextus Pompeius, who laid waste its territory, but was repulsed from the walls of the city.
This view is known as Pyrrhonian skepticism, as distinguished from Academic skepticism, as practiced by Carneades, which, according to Sextus, denies knowledge altogether.
* Excerpts from the " Outlines of Pyrrhonism " by Sextus Empiricus
Tauromenium again bore a conspicuous part during the wars of Sextus Pompeius in Sicily, and, from its strength as a fortress, was one of the principal points of the position which he took up in 36 BC, for defence against Octavian.
Pound's Homage to Sextus Propertius and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and Eliot's The Waste Land marked a transition from the short imagistic poems that were typical of earlier modernist writing towards the writing of longer poems or poem-sequences.
It is probable that the Legion served Augustus while he waged war against Sextus Pompeius who threatened the grain supply from Africa to Rome.
An example of this are the coins of Sextus Pompeius Fostulus, which feature his traditional ancestor, Fostulus, watching Romulus and Remus suckling from a mother wolf.
Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius, in English Sextus Pompey ( 67 BC – 35 BC ), was a Roman general from the late Republic ( 1st century BC ).
In the following years, military confrontations failed to return a conclusive victory for either side, although in 40 BC Sextus ' admiral, the freedman Menas, seized Sardinia from Octavian's governor Marcus Lurius.
Titus Labienus died on the field and was granted a burial by Caesar, while Gnaeus and Sextus Pompeius managed to escape from the battlefield.
Following on from the Syriac chroniclers of his homeland, who were writing in his lifetime under Arab rule in much the same fashion, as well as the Alexandrians Annianus and Panodorus ( monks who wrote near the beginning of the 5th century ), George used the chronological synchronic structures of Sextus Julius Africanus and Eusebius of Caesarea, arranging his events strictly in order of time, and naming them in the year which they happened.
He is said to have received a messenger from his son Sextus Tarquinius asking what he should do next in Gabii, since he had become all-powerful there.
Saved from execution in Camp Xeno on Ancreon Sextus by Junior Commissar Nahum Ludd, Gaunt and the Ghosts are briefly re-united with Lord-General Van Voytz before facing trial by the Commissariat.
After the battle for Herodor in Sabbat Martyr and before the events on Ancreon Sextus in His Last Command, Gaunt and a hand-picked team of Ghosts were deployed to the Chaos-held world Gereon, on a mission to find General Noches Sturm and rescue him from his captors or kill him if the mindlock on his memories had been broken.
The Habsburgs claimed descent from Julius Caesar ’ s cousin Sextus ( among others ); the Bagratids of Georgia, from the biblical King David ; the Lévis-Mirepoix, from cousins of the Virgin Mary ; and the Muscovite tsars, from Augustus Caesar ).

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