Old Academy
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Lucullus
The earlier, pre-skeptical Academic tradition that Antiochus claimed to revive in name while abandoning its skeptical substance.
He seems, while departing from the thing itself, to have wished to retain the dignity of the name.
To pass over other things, of these two matters at issue, who ever said, either of the Old Academy or of the Peripatetics, either that that alone could be perceived which was a truth of such a kind as a falsehood could not be, or that the wise man holds no opinion?
And so he says that those greatly err who say that the senses are taken away by the Academy, by whom it was never said that either colour or taste or sound is nothing;
Academica
The philosophical school descending from Plato through Speusippus and Xenocrates, holding a unified doctrine with the Peripatetics.
"for excellently is the authority of the Peripatetics and of the Old Academy unfolded.
For when Plato had left his sister's son Speusippus as, so to speak, the heir of his philosophy, but had also left two men of the most outstanding zeal and learning, Xenocrates of Chalcedon and Aristotle of Stagira, those who were with Aristotle were called Peripatetics, because they disputed while walking about in the Lyceum, whereas the others, because by Plato's institution they were accustomed …
"Briefly indeed and by no means obscurely have you set out, Varro, both the method of the Old Academy and that of the Stoics.