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each individual lent a charm to his society more potent than any flattery, yet at the same time it exacted the complete respect of all present. His manner, too, of determining and systematizing the essential rules of life was as comprehensive as it was methodical. Never displaying a sign of anger nor any kind of emotion, he was at once entirely imperturbable and yet full of kindly affection. His approval was always quietly and undemonstratively expressed, and he never paraded his encyclopaedic learning.
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My debts to Sextus include kindliness, how to rule a household with paternal authority, the real meaning of the
Natural Life, an unselfconscious dignity, an intuitive concern for the interests of one's friends, and a good-natured patience with amateurs and visionaries. The aptness of his courtesy to
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philosopher, being often in his company and frequenting his house. Lucius, who had just come to Rome, asked the
Emperor, whom he met on his way, where he was going to and on what errand, and Marcus answered: "It is good even for an old man to learn; I am now on my way to Sextus the philosopher to
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What hopes I had for you! To what bad luck my spirit has condemned me! I now lament the person who I hoped would speak more forcefully than
Minucianus, more solemnly than Nicagoras, more eloquently than Plutarch, more philosophically than Musonius, more intrepidly than Sextus—in a word, more
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were becoming known." George
Synkellos mentions Sextus again as flourishing in the period of 165 to 171, "Sextus, the nephew of the philosopher Plutarch of Chaeronea" suggesting that Sextus became known at a young age (perhaps age 25 in 120) and flourished in old age (perhaps age 70 in 165).
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has a similar mention of Sextus associated with events from 109 to 120 "In old age the philosopher
Plutarch of Chaeronea was appointed by the Emperor as procurator of Greece. The philosopher Sextus, as well as
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The date of this encounter is most likely 177–8, before Marcus' last departure for war. Marcus is also said to have "show off" his philosophy before Sextus.
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376:(a 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia based on many ancient sources that have since been lost) identifies Sextus of Chaeronea as being a student of
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also says that Sextus of
Chaeronea was so high in the favour of Marcus Aurelius that he sat in judgment with him. Two works are mentioned:
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learn what I do not yet know." And Lucius, raising his hand to heaven, said, "O Zeus, the king of the Romans in his old age takes up his
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describes how even when Marcus was an old man, in the latter part of his reign, he received instruction from Sextus, who was teaching in
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due to an ambiguous mention of Sextus as one of the teachers of Marcus
Aurelius in the notably historically unreliable
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e.g., Andrew Laird in "Fiction, Bewitchment and Story Worlds: The
Implications of Claims to Truth in Apuleius" in
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504:, Marcus speaks of Sextus in glowing terms, and we discover the type of education he received from Sextus:
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https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0258%3Abook%3D9%3Achapter%3D12
692:, p. 165. "According to the mischievous author of the Historia Augusta – who can never be trusted"
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Plutarch that Sextus was a
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495:: "No small gift will you give your daughter if you control your grief for her."
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indicated "grandson" in the
Augustan age, but by the 3rd century meant "nephew".
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also says that Sextus Empiricus was a student of Herodotus. A
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Parallel lives: Domitia Lucilla and Cratia, Fronto and Marcus
354:; c. 95 – c. 185) was a philosopher, a nephew or grandson of
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The Diffusion of Sextus Empiricus's Works in the Renaissance
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pays tribute to Sextus and Plutarch at the beginning of
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with regard to his grief for the death of his daughter
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The Emperor Marcus was an eager disciple of Sextus the
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as flourishing in the 224th Olympiad (117 to 121): "
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16:Greek philosopher and teacher (c. 95 - c. 185)
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568:are considered notable philosophers."
876:"Jerome, Chronicle (2005) pp.188-332"
671:Lies and fiction in the ancient world
403:ascribe them to Sextus of Chaeronea.
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916:The Chronography of George Synkellos
893:The Chronography of George Synkellos
765:, page 376. Loeb Classical Library.
644:, Book 11, Chapter 12, Section 116
384:, in which case Sextus would be a
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642:Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
410:. Others infer that Sextus was a
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830:Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum
942:2nd-century Greek philosophers
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82:Hellenistic philosophy
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570:The Chronography of
480:and goes to school!"
352:Sextos ho Chaironeus
270:Münchhausen trilemma
232:Similar philosophies
640:Diogenes Laertius,
378:Herodotus of Tarsus
251:Academic skepticism
170:Agrippa the Skeptic
23:Sextus of Chaeronea
724: ; cf. Suda,
614:Historia Augusta,
348:Σέξτος ὁ Χαιρωνεύς
92:Western philosophy
803:Marcus Aurelius,
789:Vitae sophistorum
750:Vitae sophistorum
718:Vitae sophistorum
705:The Inner Citadel
656:Luciano Floridi,
390:Diogenes Laertius
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562:Agathobulus
501:Meditations
455:Episkeptiká
452:Ἐπισκεπτικά
397: 1549
165:Aenesidemus
149:Pyrrhonists
925:2002 p 509
923:0199241902
902:2002 p 503
900:0199241902
863:0520250931
842:9004113045
816:Apuleius,
531: 250
529: – c.
527: 180
386:Pyrrhonist
199:Acatalepsy
132:Pyrrhonism
549:Chronicle
444:Inquiries
408:Platonist
366:Biography
339:Chaeronea
244:Epilogism
204:Adiaphora
65:possibly
48:Chaeronea
936:Category
778:xi. 145b
688:, 2011,
582:Oenomaus
566:Oenomaus
558:Plutarch
535:Himerius
514:Apuleius
493:Elpinice
473:Boeotian
356:Plutarch
194:Ataraxia
187:Concepts
124:a series
122:Part of
690:Eugesta
498:In his
478:tablets
442:), and
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844:p. 227
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807:, i. 9
726:Markos
631:σ 235.
629:Sextos
627:Suda,
601:Latin
554:Jerome
440:Ēthiká
429:Ethics
335:Sextus
219:Epoché
209:Aporia
155:Pyrrho
108:ethics
88:Region
62:c. 185
52:Greece
865:p. 32
857:2007
836:1999
820:, 1.2
776:Orat.
603:nepos
589:Notes
448:Greek
437:Ἠθικά
433:Greek
412:Stoic
343:Greek
214:Dogma
44:c. 95
919:ISBN
896:ISBN
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838:ISBN
580:and
564:and
465:Rome
425:Suda
423:The
373:Suda
370:The
67:Rome
59:Died
41:Born
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