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Pyrrho

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A sceptic. Pyrrho was the founder of the sceptical school of philosophy. He was a native of Elis, in Peloponneʹsos.

“Blessed be the day Iʹscaped the wrangling crew

From Pyrrho’s maze and Epicurusʹ sty.”


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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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