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CLITOMACHUS

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CLITOMACHUS , See also:

Greek philosopher, was a Carthaginian originally named See also:Hasdrubal, who came to See also:Athens about the See also:middle of the and See also:century B.C. at the See also:age of twenty-four. He made himself well acquainted with Stoic and Peripatetic See also:philosophy; but he studied principally under See also:Carneades, whose views he adopted, and whom he succeeded as See also:chief of the New See also:Academy in 129 B.C. He made it his business to spread the knowledge of the doctrines of Carneades, who See also:left nothing in See also:writing himself. Clitomachus' See also:works were some four See also:hundred in number; but we possess scarcely anything but a few titles, among which are De sustinendis assensionib'us (IIEpI E1roXr/s " on suspension of See also:judgment ") and Ilepi aipEOean, (an See also:account of various philosophical sects). In 146 he wrote a See also:treatise to See also:console his See also:country-men after the ruin of their See also:city, in which he insisted that a See also:wise See also:man ought not to feel grieved at the destruction of his country. See also:Cicero highly commends his works and admits his own See also: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 See also:main based upon Clitomachus. See E. Wellmann in See also:Ersch and See also:Gruber's Allgemeine Encyclopadie; R. Hirzel, Untersuchungen zu Ciceros philosophischen Schriften, i. (1877) Diog. Laert. iv.

67—92; Cicero, Acad. Pr. ii. 31, 32, and Tuse. iii. 22 ; and See also:

article ACADEMY, GREEK.

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