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CLITOMACHUS , Greek
century B.C. at the age of twenty-four. He made himself well acquainted with Stoic and Peripatetic philosophy; but he studied principally under Carneades
chief
Academy in 129 B.C. He made it his business to spread the knowledge of the doctrines of Carneades
account of various philosophical sects). In 146 he wrote a treatise to console his country-men after the ruin of their city, in which he insisted that a wise man ought not to feel grieved at the destruction of his country. Cicero highly commends his works and admits his own debt in the Academics to the treatiseIlepi EIroxi3s. Parts of Cicero's De Nature and De Divinatione, and the treatise De Fato are also in the main
See E. Wellmann in Ersch and Gruber
article
ACADEMY
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