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Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations

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[62] Hieronymus was a Rhodian, and a pupil of Aristotle, flourishing about 300 B.C.He is frequently mentioned by Cicero.
[63] We know very little of Dinomachus.

Some MSS.

have Clitomachus.
[64] Callipho was in all probability a pupil of Epicurus, but we have no certain information about him.
[65] Diodorus was a Syrian, and succeeded Critolaus as the head of the Peripatetic School at Athens.
[66] Aristo was a native of Ceos, and a pupil of Lycon, who succeeded Straton as the head of the Peripatetic School, 270 B.C.He afterward himself succeeded Lycon.
[67] Pyrrho was a native of Elis, and the originator of the sceptical theories of some of the ancient philosophers.

He was a contemporary of Alexander.
[68] Herillus was a disciple of Zeno of Cittium, and therefore a Stoic.
He did not, however, follow all the opinions of his master: he held that knowledge was the chief good.


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