Arcesilaus

In which the most noble philosophers spent their lives — Xenocrates, Crantor, Arcesilaus, Lacydes, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Zeno, Cleanthes, Chrysippus, Antipater, Carneades, Clitomachus, Philo, Antiochus, Panaetius, Posidonius, and innumerable others, who, once having gone out, never returned home.

Or did Plato surpass Xenocrates, or Polemo Arcesilaus, in being happier?

Arcesilaus had part with Crantor, and from him, down to Hegesinus, the Middle Academy flourished.

For it would have been a wonder if—as Arcesilaus jestingly suggested—the bag had eaten the mouse.

"It was with Zeno, as we have received it, that Arcesilas set up his whole contest—not from obstinacy or zeal for victory, as it seems to me at least, but because of the obscurity of those matters which had brought Socrates, and, even before Socrates, Democritus, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, and almost all the ancients, to the confession of ignorance.

This New Academy, carried down as far as Carneades, who was fourth from Arcesilas, remained in the same method of Arcesilas.

Zeno, by whom he is called a beast, or Arcesilas, from whom he hears, "You are perhaps speaking the truth, but I shall inquire more diligently.

Yet that thin air will not bring it about that a man should listen to Zeno, or to Arcesilaus, or to Theophrastus, nor will the thick air make him seek victory at Nemea rather than at the Isthmus.

in any case, he married a certain Ladice, said by some to be the daughter of Battus, of Arcesilaus by others, and by others again of Critobulus, an esteemed citizen of the place.

4 Hecaton sets down a silly and frivolous example, that of Arcesilaus, who, he says, did not accept money brought to him by a son of a family, lest the young man should offend his miserly father.

Solon and Arcesilaus are believed to have been fond of wine;

Likewise Arcesilaus draws a threefold form of divinity: