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Empirica,¹ which would be natural if the Hypotyposes were written shortly after Galen’s Subfiguratio Empirica, and in the same place. Further, Hippolytus, who wrote in or near Rome very soon after the time of Sextus, apparently used the Hypotyposes, which would be more natural if he wrote in the same place. According to Haas, everything in internal evidence and outward testimony points to Rome as having been the city where Sextus occupied his position as the head of the Sceptical School.

Coming now to the position of Pappenheim on this subject, we find that he takes very decided ground against the seat of the Sceptical School having been in Rome, even for a short time, in his latest publication regarding it.² This opinion is the result of late study on the part of Pappenheim, for in his work on the Life circumstances of Sextus Empiricus (Berlin 1875), he says, "Galen says that Herodotus lived in Rome. Presumably Sextus did too." original: "Dass Herodotus in Rom lebte sagt Galen. Vermuthlich auch Sextus." His reasons given in the later article for not connecting the Sceptical School at all with Rome are as follows: He finds no proof of the influence of Scepticism in Rome, as Cicero remarks that Pyrrhonism is extinct,³ and he also gives weight to the well-known sarcastic saying of Seneca, "Who is there who teaches the precepts of Pyrrho!" original: "Quis est qui tradat praecepta Pyrrhonis!"⁴ While Haas claims that Sextus would naturally seek one of the centers of dogmatism in order most effectively to combat it, Pappenheim, on the contrary, contends that it would have been foolishness on the part of Sextus to think of...