Attic Nights, Vol. II

emulated not at all unsuitably. These are the equivalent Ennian verses:

Ennius did well, as I said; but 'ignoble' and 'wealthy' do not seem to satisfy the meaning of 'disreputable' (adoxountōn those without glory) and 'those in high standing' (dokountōn those who have a reputation); for not all the ignoble are without glory, nor do all the wealthy have a good reputation.

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Those whom we call Pyrrhonian philosophers are called by the Greek name skeptikoi skeptics; that signifies almost as if 'seekers' and 'considerers.' For they determine nothing, they establish nothing, but are always in the act of seeking and considering what it is in all things about which it is possible to determine or establish anything. And they believe that they do not even clearly see or hear anything, but that they suffer and are affected in such a way as if they were seeing or hearing, and they hesitate and linger regarding the nature of the very things that produce these affections in them. They say that the credibility and truth of all things seem incomprehensible due to the mixed and confused signs of the true and the false, so that any man who is not headstrong nor prodigal with his own judgment ought to use those words which they say Pyrrho, the author of that philosophy, used: "It is no more this way than that way, or neither way."