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1. A Greek philosopher, a native of Corinth. The age when he flourished is uncertain. The
little that we know of him is derived from Sextus Empiricus, who represents him as holding the
most ultra sceptical opinions, and maintaining that all notions are false, and that there is
absolutely nothing true in the universe (Adv. Math. 7.388, 399). What
Sextus knew of him seems to have been derived from Democritus (ib. 7.53). He more than once
couples him with Xenophanes (Pyrrh. Hyp. 2.18, ad v.
Math. 7.48). Perhaps his representations may be as exaggerated in the one case as in the
other (comp. XENOPHANES).