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CRANTOR , a See also:

Greek philosopher of the Old See also:

Academy, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born, probably about the See also:

MIDDLE

middle of the 4th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century 11.c., at See also:

Soli in See also:

CILICIA

Cilicia. He was a See also:

FELLOW

fellow-See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of Polemo in the school of See also:

XENOCRATES

Xenocrates at See also:

Athens, and was the first commentator on See also:

PLATO

Plato. He is said to have written some poems which he sealed up and deposited in the See also:

temple of Athens at Soli (Diog. Laertius iv. 5. 25). Of his celebrated See also:

WORK

work On Grief (IIepl ir&Oovs), a See also:

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter of condolence to his friend Hippocles on the See also:

DEATH

death of his See also:

CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children, numerous extracts have been preserved in See also:

Plutarch's Consolatio ad A pollonium and in the De consolatione of See also:

CICERO

Cicero, who speaks of it (Acad. ii. 44. 135) in the highest terms (aureolus et ad verbum ediscendus). Crantor paid especial See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to See also:

ethics, and arranged " See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good " things in the following order—virtue, See also:

HEALTH

health, See also:

PLEASURE (through Fr. plaisir from Lat. placere, to please; Gr. rlbovii)

pleasure, riches. See F. See also:

KAYSER, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH EMANUEL (1845- )

Kayser,:De Crantore Academico (1841); M.

H. E. Meier, Opuscula academica, ii. (1863) ; F. Susemihl, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur in der Alexandrinerzeit, i. (1891), p. 118.

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