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METROCLES

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 300 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
METROCLES , a
Greek
  philosoper of the Cynic school, was a contemporary of Crates, under whose persuasion he deserted the views of Theophrastus. It was his
sister
 , Hipparchia, whose romantic
attachment
  to Crates is a fascinating sidelight on the almost truculent asceticism of the
Cynics
 . He was a man of
peculiar
  strength of
character
 , and esteemed the joys of
life
  so low that he was deterred from an early suicide only by the
influence
  of Crates. His philosophical views, which were identical with those of Crates (q.v.), he expounded by precept and example with
great
  success, and had among his pupils
Menippus of Sinope. Having weighed the probable pains and pleasures of approaching old age, he decided that
life
  had nothing left for which he greatly cared, and drowned himself. He is said to have written several works, which he afterwards burnt. Of one, entitled Xpetai,
Diogenes
  preserves a single line (vi. 6).


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