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CRATIPPUS , of Mitylene (1st See also:

century B.C.), Peripatetic philosopher, contemporary with See also:Cicero, whose son he taught at See also:Athens, and by whom he is praised in the De officiis as the greatest of his school. He was the friend of See also:Pompey also and shared his See also:flight after the See also:battle of Pharsalia, for the purpose, it is said, of convincing him of the See also:justice of See also:providence. See also:Brutus, while at Athens after the assassination of See also:Caesar, attended his lectures. The freedom of See also:Rome was conferred upon him by Caesar, at the See also:request of Cicero. The only See also:work attributed to him is a See also:treatise on See also:divination, but his reputation may be gauged by the fact that in 44 B.C. the See also:Areopagus invited him to succeed Andronicus of See also:Rhodes as scholarch. He seems to have held that, while See also:motion, sense and appetite cannot exist apart from the See also:body, thought reaches its greatest See also:power when most See also:free from bodily See also:influence, and that divination is due to the See also:direct See also:action of the divine mind on that See also:faculty of the human soul which is not dependent on the body. Cicero, De divinatione, i. 3, 32, 50, ii. 48, 52 ; De dials, i. 1, iii. 2 ; See also:Plutarch, Cicero, 24.

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