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PHILODEMUS , Epicurean philosopher and poet, was born at Gadara in Coele-Syria early in the 1st century B.C., andsettled in Rome in the time of Cicero. He was a friend of Calpurnius
Piso
Horace , Satires, 1. 2. 120). The Greek anthology
treatises
rhetoric , ethics, signs, virtues and vices, and defend the Epicurean standpoint against the Stoics and the Peripatetics .The Rhetoric has been edited by Sudhaus (1892-1895) ; the De Ira and the De Pietate by Gomperz (1864 to 1865) ; the De Musica by Kempke (1884) ; De Vitiis by Ussing (1868) ; De Morte by Mekler (1886). See Hercul. Volum. (Oxford
Mayor on Cicero's De Natura deorum (1871).End of Article: PHILODEMUS If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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