 This convoluted transmission might lead one to doubt how much authentic information can be extracted from the passage. But there is no reason, first, to doubt Eusebius’ explicit claim to be quoting Aristocles verbatim. Aristocles is not quoting Timon verbatim; some of the vocabulary in this passage is clearly reminiscent of Aristocles’ own vocabulary in other chapters. However, other terms in the passage are quite distinct both from Aristocles’ own normal usage and from any of the terminology familiar to us from later Pyrrhonism, yet were in use prior to Timon’s day; it seems easiest to account for these as authentic reproductions of Timon’s own language. In addition, the frequent mention of Timon either by name or by the word phêsi, ‘he says’, suggests that Aristocles is taking pains to reproduce the essentials of his account as faithfully as possible. And finally, Aristocles’ other chapters, where we are in a position to check his summaries against other evidence of the views being summarized, suggest that he is in general a reliable reporter of other people’s views, even views to which he himself is strongly opposed—or at least, that he is reliable when he has access to systematic written expositions of those views, as seems to be the case here. As for Timon’s reliability as a source for Pyrrho’s views, we cannot be sure, but we cannot do better; he is clearly closer to Pyrrho than any other source who discusses him. However, as already noted, there is a further question concerning how far the passage is a report of Pyrrho’s ideas and how far it gives us Timon’s creative development of them.