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.

Polemo, now, Zeno and Arcesilas had attended assiduously.

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.

Arcesilaus, they say, judged that he should secretly help a friend who was poor and concealed his poverty, who, being ill, did not even confess this, that he lacked the means for necessary uses;

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

Likewise Arcesilaus draws a threefold form of divinity: