Plato

Aristocles desestima estas representaciones como ataques de los sofistas envidiosos.

A todo momento, Aristocles, falando pela boca de Eusebio, refere-se a Timao como o porta-voz de Pirro, assim, e Timao quem propoe as tres questoes, e tambem as tres respostas.

Eusebius did, of course, know Porphyry's history of philosophy, which he used in his Chronicon, and it is possible that he did refer to Porphyry's work in the course of writing the PE.(2) There are, however, stronger reasons to attribute the quotations of Protagoras, Metrodorus, and Democritus to Aristocles of Messana and the quotation of Sextus Empiricus to Numenius of Apamea.

Tradition has it that Plato was originally named Aristocles, and only later called Plato ( " broad " ) because of his wide forehead, his robust physique, the quality of his writing, or a variety of other explanations.

(20) El origen del enfrentamiento nos es desconocido y solo podemos colegir los efectos escandalosos en el testimonio de Aristocles, que acusa a Eubulides de mentiroso porque atribuia a Aristoteles "poemas frios, aunque los han compuesto otros, acerca del matrimonio y el parentesco que tenia con Hermias, y luego pretendiendo que Aristoteles ofendio a Filipo, no estuvo junto a Platon cuando murio y destruyo sus obras".

He also argues for an ethical rather than an epistemological interpretation of Pyrrho, and suggests (247) that the report of Pyrrho in Aristocles can be understood if our beliefs are themselves included among "things." Frede argues against the view that Stoic cognitive impressions have a specific distinguishing mark (314), and suggests that the Stoics should be regarded as rationalists rather than empiricists (321).