Arnobius — Against the Nations 2.9
9.1. What? Those things about matters set apart from human knowing which you yourselves write, which you read—have you seen them by eyed inspection and held them handled with hands? Does not each of you believe this or that set of authors? Does not each protect that he is persuaded truth is spoken by another as if by a kind of assent of faith?
2. Who says the origin of all things is fire or water—does he not believe Thales or Heraclitus? Who sets the cause in numbers—not Pythagoras of Samos, not Archytas? 3. Who divides the soul and sets up incorporeal forms—not Plato the Socratic? Who applies a fifth element to principal causes—not Aristotle, father of the Peripatetics? Who threatens fire to the world, and that it will burn when the time has come—not Panaetius, Chrysippus, Zeno? 4. Who is always fashioning and destroying worlds with indivisible bodies—not Epicurus, Democritus, Metrodorus? Who affirms that nothing is grasped by a human and that all things are wrapped in blind obscurities—not Arcesilaus, Carneades, not finally some devotee of the old or newer Academy?
Latin
9.1. Quid? illa de rebus ab humana cognitione sepositis, quae conscribitis ipsi, quae lectitatis, oculata vidistis inspectione et manibus tractata tenuistis? nonne vestrum quicumque est huic vel illi credit auctoribus? non quod sibi persuaserit quis verum dici ab altero velut quadam fidei astipulatione tutatur?
2. Qui cunctarum <rerum> originem <ignem> esse dicit aut aquam, non Thaleti aut Heraclito credit? qui causam in numeris ponit, non Pythagorae Samio, non Archytae? 3. qui animam dividit et incorporales constituit formas, non Platoni Socratico? qui quintum elementum principalibus adplicat causis, non Aristoteli Peripateticorum patri? qui ignem minatur mundo, et venerit cum tempus arsurum, non Panaetio Chrysippo Zenoni? 4. qui individuis corporibus mundos semper fabricatur et destruit, non Epicuro Democrito Metrodoro? qui nihil ab homine comprehendi <autumat> atque omnia caecis obscuritatibus involuta, non Arcesilae, Carneadi, non alicui denique Academiae veteris recentiorisque cultori?