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  • With one exception, he never mentions him except in conjunction with the Stoics Aristo and (sometimes) Herillus, and the remarks in question always concern the same one or two points in ethics; it looks as if his knowledge of Pyrrho derives almost entirely from a single source that conveyed little or nothing about Pyrrho individually, and nothing at all about any views of his in metaphysics or epistemology.

    Picnic 2009

  • -- The principal adepts and masters of Stoicism with and after Zeno were Cleanthes, Chrysippus, Aristo, and Herillus in Greece; at Rome, Cato, Brutus, Cicero to a certain degree, Thrasea, Epictetus

    Initiation into Philosophy ��mile Faguet 1881

  • Upon this account Herillus has long since shared the same fate with the two former; for nobody has took him to task after Chrysippus.

    Cicero's Five Books De Finibus: Or, Concerning the Last Object of Desire and Aversion 1812

  • Aristotle and Theophrastus frequently run high in the commendations of science, and ite intrinsic excellency, What does Herillus in his zeal but set up science for the summum bonum, and swear that nothing in the world beside is valuable and desirable for itself?

    Cicero's Five Books De Finibus: Or, Concerning the Last Object of Desire and Aversion 1812

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