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nks that the _Hypotyposes_ were delivered in Rome for the following reasons. Sextus' lectures must have been given in some centre of philosophical schools and of learning. He never opposes Roman relations to those of the place where he is speaking, as he does in regard to Athens and Alexandria. He uses the name "Romans" only three times,[1] once comparing them to the Rhodians, once to the Persians, and once in general to other nations.[2] In the first two of these references, the expression "among the Romans" in the first part of the antithesis is followed by the expression, "among us," in the second part, which Haas understands to be synonymous. The third reference is in regard to a Roman law, and the use of the word 'Roman' does not at all show that Sextus was not then in Rome. The character of the laws referred to by Sextus as [Greek: par' haemin] shows that they were always Roman laws, and his definition of law[3] is especially a definition of Roman law. This argument might, it would seem, apply to any part of the Roman Empire, but Haas claims that the whole relation of law to custom as treated of by Sextus, and all his statements of customs forbidden at that time by law, point to Rome as the place of his residence. Further, Haas considers the Herodotus mentioned by Galen[4] as a prominent physician in Rome, to have been the predecessor and master of Sextus, in whose place Sextus says that he is teaching.[5] Haas also thinks that Sextus' refutation of the identity of Pyrrhonism with Empiricism evidently refers to a paragraph in Galen's _Subfiguratio Empirica_,[6] which would be natural if the _Hypotyposes_ were written shortly after Galen's _Sub. Em._, 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, every thing 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. [1] Haas _Op. cit._ p. 15. [2] _Hyp._ I. 149, 152; III. 211. [3] _Hyp._ I. 146. [4] Galen _de puls._ IV. 11; Bd. VIII. 751. [5] _Hyp_. III. 120. [6] Galen _Sub. Em._ 123 B-126 D. (Basileae, 1542). 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 be
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