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17. [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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