Crossword-Solution: SCEPSIS 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

For after the death of Theophrastus the library of the Lyceum is said to have been buried underground at Scepsis until about a century before Christ, So that the Organon may actually have been lost to the world during that period.

The name of Socrates was all powerful in the Academy, but Aenesidemus comprehended the fact that the true spirit of Pyrrhonism was of earlier origin than the Academic Scepsis.

Theophrastus bequeathed the entire library to Neleus, his friend and pupil, who, on leaving Athens to reside at Scepsis in the Troad, took the library with him.

Around him were old books that had belonged to famous students of old--Scaliger, Meursius, Muretus--and before him lay the proof-sheets of his long-deferred work, a new critical edition of “Demetrius of Scepsis.” Looking at his friend, Maitland envied the learned calm of a man who had not contrived, in the task of developing his own human nature, to become involved, like his pupil, in a singular and deplorable conjuncture of circumstances.

Bielby was informed of his state, and came to see him; but Maitland talked so wildly about the _Hit or Miss_, about the man in the bearskin coat, and other unintelligible matters, that the hermit soon withdrew to the more comprehensible fragments of “Demetrius of Scepsis.” He visited his old pupil daily, and behaved with real kindness; but the old implicit trust never revived with Maitland’s returning health.