Lacydes
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Lucullus
Academic philosopher who maintained Arcesilas's skeptical method after him.
His method, at first not much approved (though he flourished both in keenness of intellect and in a certain admirable charm of speech), was next maintained by Lacydes alone, and afterwards perfected by Carneades, who is fourth from Arcesilas;
Tusculan Disputations
Academic philosopher listed among those who spent their lives abroad
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.