A witness from
Classical Antiquity:
Pericles,
also, was a hearer of Zeno, the Eleatic, who treated of natural philosophy in the same manner as Parmenides did,
but had also perfected himself in an art of his own, for refuting and silencing opponents in argument; as Timon of Phlius describes it --
Also
the two-edgted tongue of mighty
Zeno, who,
say
what one would, could argue it untrue.
--
Plutarch’s Lives (Dryden’s translation)
(For the essay
to which that is an addendum, see:
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