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Arcesilao, filósofo kairológico

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2 de marzo de 1544, hubo una carrera de caballos, en la cual<br />

una jinete llamada "Ocasión" montaba un albo corcel.<br />

Eusebio, a propósito de Enomao, menciona a Anfiarao y<br />

Odiseo, alias "Nadie", en conjunción con <strong>Arcesilao</strong>; parece<br />

que éste es el Odiseo Nadie, del episodio homérico del<br />

Cíclope:<br />

But even if Alcmeon is mad, and imagines things that do not exist, yet<br />

the Pythian god at least is not mad. And thou must not speak to him<br />

thus: 'How to return to thy home thou seek'st, son of Amphiaraus.' For<br />

even thou knowest not yet whether any son of Amphiaraus is<br />

consulting thee, nor whether thou, the consulted, art anything at all,<br />

and able to answer concerning the matters on which he consults thee.<br />

Neither therefore let Chrysippus, the author of the semi-slavery,<br />

whatever that exactly is, attend in the Porch, nor think that those<br />

drivellers will attend there to listen to him, the Nobody: neither let him<br />

take his stand and struggle about nothing against Arcesilaus present in<br />

person, and Epicurus not present. For what Arcesilaus is, and what<br />

Epicurus, or what the Porch is, or what the young men, or what the<br />

Nobody, he neither knows nor can know; for he knows not even, what<br />

comes far earlier, whether he himself is anything (Praep. Evag.,<br />

257a). 67<br />

Cito esta versión al inglés porque al leer "Amphiaraus", sigue<br />

la enmienda de Valckenaer para un textus corruptissimus:<br />

. La lectura se apoya en la<br />

grafía latina Amphiaraiades en Ovidio (Fast., 1.2.43). 68 Que<br />

tal vez <strong>Arcesilao</strong> sea ese Nadie homérico parece verosímil por<br />

dos razones: 1) él mismo menciona la patria de Odiseo como<br />

un modelo de educación: "<strong>Arcesilao</strong> decía que, como Itaca, la<br />

pobreza era penosa, pero una buena cosa que educa a los<br />

jóvenes, la cual los acostumbra a convivir con simplicidad y<br />

constancia, y es en general un enérgico ejercicio para la<br />

virtud" (Stob. Anth., 3.32.17). 69 2) <strong>Arcesilao</strong> cita una<br />

67 The Preparation for the Gospel, 6.7.277. At enim furat<br />

Alcmeon licet, quaeque nulla sunt, animo sibi fingat; non furit quidem<br />

Pythius. Imo cave tu quoque id ei occinas, Tu reditum in patriam votis<br />

flagrantibus urges, / Versus Arcadiam (Praepar. Evang. Lib.<br />

VI.257ab [Patrologia Graeca, 21.437-438]).<br />

68 Patrologia Graeca, 21.1523.<br />

69<br />

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