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...ows his teacher, while the Academicians follow with sympathy and assent, as Carneades and Clitomachus affirm. [3] The third difference is in the ai... ...erlying the outward development. Although during the time of Arcesilaus and Carneades the difference was so slight as to seem a mere matter of form ... ...me others. Those who have 3 declared it impossible to find are Clitomachus, Carneades, with their respective followers, and other Academicians. Thos... ...s, Arcesilaus being the pupil of Polemo; the third and new Academy, that of Carneades and Clitomachus and their followers; some add also a fourth, th... ...igal follows the one who chooses to live a luxurious life. Therefore, since Carneades, Clitomachus, and their followers say that they are strongly in...

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...aies, by an over-greedy desire of knowledge, become as as it were foolish? Carneades was so deeply plunged, and as I may say besotted in it, that he ... ...deeds, who had so braved it in words.' Arcesilas lying sicke of the gowt, Carneades comming to visit him, and seeing him to frowne, supposing he had... ...we have, and as of certaine knowledges have treated of them; Clitomachus, Carneades, and the Academikes have despaired the finding of it, and judged ... ...sly of nothing, derived from Socrates, renewed by Arcesilas, confirmed by Carneades, is in force till our time: we are those that aver some falsehood... ...e? Clytomachus affirmed that he could never understand by the writings of Carneades, what opinion he was of. Why hath Epicurus interdicted facility ... ...d so vehement oppositions, that he could not satisfie himselfe. Whereupon Carneades (who defended the contrary part boasted that he used the very sa... ...who in the honour of his memorie and of Metrodorus should meete together. Carneades hath been chiefe of the contrary opinion and hath maintained tha... ...tilly to cozen? If thou knowest a serpent to be hidden in any place (saith Carneades) to which he by whose death thou hopest to reape commodity goeth... ...it; but he should have caused him to be whipt. For this consideration was Carneades wont to say, that 'Princes children learn't nothing aright but to...

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... them in religion and law, so unacquainted with other learning, that when Carneades and Critolaus, with the Stoic Diogenes coming ambassadors to ...

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... him for it, but he ought to have had him whipped. Upon this consideration Carneades said, that “the sons of princes learned nothing right but to mana... ...se.”—Italian Proverb.] This is the reason why Clitomachus said of old that Carneades had outdone the labours of Hercules, in having eradicated consent... ...t is to say, opinion and the courage of judging. This so vigorous fancy of Carneades sprang, in my opinion, anciently from the impudence of those who ...

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... who left more behind him than he had received. He was now grown old, when Carneades the Academic, and Diogenes the Stoic, came as deputies from Athen... ...and frequently, with admiration, heard them speak. But the gracefulness of Carneades’s oratory, whose ability was really greatest, and his reputation ... ...aws and governors. Yet he did this not out of any anger, as some think, to Carneades; but because he wholly despised philosophy, and out of a kind of ... ...e New one which at that time under Philo flour- ished with the precepts of Carneades, but the Old one, then sustained and represented by Antiochus of ...

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...seen in my time totally brutified by an immoderate thirst after knowledge? Carneades was so besotted with it, that he would not find time so much as t...

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...fallen off from the New Academy, as they call it, and forsaken the sect of Carneades, whether that he was moved by the argument of manifestness and th...

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..., is shown by Valerius, in his book addressed to Tiberius, by many examples. Carneades, he says, was a laborious and lifelong soldier of wisdom: after...

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...t them in religion and law; so unac quainted with other learning, that when Carneades and Critolaus, with the Stoic Diogenes, coming ambassadors to R...

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...nour of the memory of him and of Metrodorus.—[Cicero, De Finibus, ii. 30.] Carneades was head of the contrary opinion, and main- tained that glory was... ...ut only slily and with cir- cumspection to do ill? “If thou knowest,” says Carneades, “of a serpent lurking in a place where, without suspicion, a per...

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...ior to any of the like profession in the present times. The Athenians sent Carneades the academic, and Diogenes the stoic, upon a solemn embassy to Ro... ...ts former grandeur, it was still an independent and considerable republic. Carneades, too, was a Babylonian by birth; and as there never was a people ...