claim as friends (or, as Christians would say, more tenderly, like angels3). The philosophers of the Old Academy hold that there can be no doubt about the reality of the supreme good and the ultimate evil. In this, they claim, lies the difference between themselves and the skeptics of the New Academy. So long as any philosopher holds these ultimates to be real, it is for them a matter of no consequence at all if he affects the dress and diet of a Cynic or of anyone else. As for the three kinds of