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ELIS, PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOL OF

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ELIS, PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOL OF . This school was founded by See also:

PHAEDO

Phaedo, a 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:

SOCRATES

Socrates. It existed for a very See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

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time and was then transferred by See also:

MENEDEMUS

Menedemus to See also:

ERETRIA (mod. Aletria)

Eretria, where it became known as the Eretrian school. Its See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief members, beside Phaedo, were Anchipylus, See also:

MOSCHUS

Moschus and Pleistanus (see PIIAEDO and MENEDEMUS).

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