ked the definition of the one and of the other, we do not give the
same for them both; and therefore those err who predicate the one of
the other. For if good is the same with man, and to run the same with
a horse, how is good affirmed also of food and medicine, and again (by
Jupiter) to run of a lion and a dog? But if the predicate is different,
then we do not rightly say that a man is good, and a horse runs." Now
if Stilpo is in this exorbitant and grossly mistaken, not admitting
any copulation of such things as are in the subject, or affirmed of the
subject, with the subject itself; but holding that every one of them,
if it is not absolutely one and the same thing with that to which it
happens or of which it is spoken, ought not to be spoken or affirmed of
it,--no, not even as an accident; it is nevertheless manifest, that he
was only offended with some words, and opposed the usual and accustomed
manner of speaking, and not that he overthrew man's life, and turned his
affairs upside down.

Colotes, then, having got rid of the old philosophers, turns to those of
his own time, but without naming any of them; though he would have done
better either to have reproved by name these moderns, as he did the
ancients, or else to have named neither of them. But he who has so often
employed his pen against Socrates, Plato, and Parmenides, evidently
demonstrates that it is through cowardice he dares not attack the
living, and not for any modesty or reverence, of which he showed not
the least sign to those who were far more excellent than these. But his
meaning is, as I suspect, to assault the Cyrenaics first, and afterwards
the Academics, who are followers of Arcesilaus. For it was these who
doubted of all things; but those, placing the passions and imaginations
in themselves, were of opinion that the belief proceeding from them is
not sufficient for the assuring and affirming of things but, as if it
were in the siege of a town, abandoning what is without, they have shut
themselves up in the passions, using only it seems, and not asserting
it is, of things without. And therefore they cannot, as Colotes says
of them, live or have the use of things. And then speaking comically of
them, he adds: "These deny that there is a man, a horse, a wall; but say
that they themselves (as it were) become walls, horses, men," or "take
on the images of walls, horses, or men." In which he first maliciously
abuses the terms, as caluminators are usua