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    Aenesidemus

    historical figure · 3 works · 6 mentions · 10 anchored passages

    Aenesidemus of Cnossus

    in the texts

    De AnimaLate Antiquity · Latin

    Philosopher who held air to be the soul's substance.

    — not that air is its very substance (although this seemed so to Aenesidemus and Anaximenes, and, I think, according to some, to Heraclitus too), nor that it is light (although this pleased Heraclides of Pontus).
    de anima
    for they too maintain the unity of the soul, which, diffused through the whole body and everywhere itself, like breath in a pipe through its holes, so flashes forth through the organs of sense in various ways — not so much cut up as dispensed.
    de anima
    This the Stoics hold with Aenesidemus, and Plato himself at times, when he says that the soul, otherwise strange and an exile from the womb, is led in by the first inbreathing of the infant as it is born, just as it is led out by the last out-breathing.
    de anima

    Vitae philosophorumImperial · Greek

    Sceptic philosopher and author of several works who is the passage's principal authority for describing the Pyrrhonean method and its criterion of the apparent.

    But Aenesidemus says that it was only his philosophy that was based upon suspension of judgement, and that he did not lack foresight in his everyday acts.
    book 9
    Thus the Pyrrhonean principle, as Aenesidemus says in the introduction to his Pyrrhonics, is but a report on phenomena or on any kind of judgement, a report in which all things are brought to bear on one another, and in the comparison are found to present much anomaly and confusion.
    book 9
    Pyrrho himself, indeed, left no writings, but his associates Timon, Aenesidemus, Numenius and Nausiphanes did;
    book 9

    RhetoricClassical · Greek

    Figure cited in the example of preemptive wrongdoing involving Gelon.

    thus, Aenesidemus is said to have sent the prize in the game of cottabus to Gelon, who, having reduced a town to slavery, had anticipated him by doing what he had intended to do himself.
    book 1