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PHILO OF LARISSA , Greek
century B.C. During the Mithradatic wars he left Athens and took up his residence in Rome. He was a pupil of Clitomachus, whom he succeeded as head of the Third or New Academy . According to Sextus Empiricus, he was the founder of the Fourth Academy
separate
academies
rhetoric and philosophy, and collected around him many eminent pupils, amongst whom Cicero was the most famous and the most enthusiastic. None of his works is extant; our knowledge of his views is derived from Numenius
See Grysar, Die Akademiker Philo
Gottingen
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