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DICAEARCHUS , of See also:

MESSENE

Messene in See also:

SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily, Peripatetic philosopher and 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 See also:

Aristotle, historian, and geographer, flourished about 320 B.C. He was a friend of See also:

THEOPHRASTUS

Theophrastus, to whom he dedicated the See also:

MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority of his See also:

WORKS

works. Of his writings, which comprised See also:

TREATISES

treatises on a See also:

GREAT

great variety of subjects, only the titles and a few fragments survive. The most important of them was his (3ios -rilr `EXAabos (See also:

LIFE

Life in See also:

GREECE

Greece), in which the moral, See also:

POLITICAL

political and social See also:

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition of the See also:

PEOPLE

people was very fully discussed. In his Tripoliticos he described the best See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of See also:

government as a mixture of See also:

MONARCHY (Fr. monarchic, from Lat. monarchia, Gr. uovapXia, rule of one, µbvos, alone, apXi7, rule)

monarchy, See also:

ARISTOCRACY (Gr. apuvror, best; «paria, government)

aristocracy and See also:

DEMOCRACY (Gr. 3np.oKparia, from S)µos, the people, i.e. the commons, and Kparos, rule)

democracy, and illustrated it by the example of See also:

SPARTA (Gr. Eirapril or AaKe5atycav)

Sparta. Among the philosophical works of Dicaearchus may be mentioned the Lesbiaci, a See also:

DIALOGUE

dialogue in three books, in which the author endeavours to prove that the soul is mortal, to which he added a supplement called Corinthiaci. He also wrote a Description of the See also:

WORLD

World illustrated by maps, in which was probably included his Measurements of Mountains. A description of Greece (150 iambics, in C. See also:

Muller, Frag. See also:

list. Greec. i. 238-243) was formerly attributed to him, but, as the initial letters of the first twenty-three lines show, was really the See also:

WORK

work of See also:

Dionysius, son of Calliphon. Three considerable fragments of a See also:

PROSE

prose description of Greece (Muller, i.

97-110) are now assigned to an unknown author named Heracleides. The De re publica of See also:

CICERO

Cicero is supposed to be founded on one of Dicaearchus's works. The best edition of the fragments is by M. Fuhr (1841), a work of great learning; see also a dissertation by F. G. Osann, Beitrage zur rom. and griech. Litteratur, ii. pp. 1-117 (1839) ; Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie der klass. Altertumswiss. v. pt. 1 (1905).

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