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262 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 36: 9 APRIL~ 998 skeptical (especially Pyrrhonian) texts in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Europe provided early modern thinkers with powerful sources of inspiration and provocation, as well as with plentiful conceptual larders from which to draw. 3 Among the most important and most interesting investigations that have been conducted along these lines has been that of attempting to determine the precise nature and extent of the impact of the rediscovery of ancient skepticism upon the thought of David Hume (1711-76). Indeed, the question of the skeptical influences upon Hume has informed much of Popkin's subsequent work. 4 Most recently, Popkin has undertaken to update the catalogue of sources from which Hume may have drawn in a" Note" commenting on an article that appeared in the Journal of the History of Ideas by Leo Groarke and Graham …