ABSTRACT
In a cast of shadowy characters none is darker than Agrippa. Our sources mention him but once: DL 9 88 talks of ‘Agrippa and his associates’, in the context of the Five Modes-and they are thus known as ‘the Modes of Agrippa’. Sextus, however, attributes them only to ‘the more recent sceptics’ (hoi neōteroi: PH 1 164), to contrast with ‘the older ones’ to whom he ascribes the Ten (PH 1 36: Chapter VII, 121). Diogenes’ text may even be corrupt. If Agrippa existed, he must have lived in the two centuries or so separating Aenesidemus and Sextus; and that is all one can say.
