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LACYDES OF CYRENE

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CYRENE , See also:Greek philosopher, was See also:head of the See also:Academy at See also:Athens in See also:succession to See also:Arcesilaus about 241 B.C. Though some regard him as the founder of the New Academy, the testimony of antiquity is that he adhered in See also:general to the theory of Arcesilaus, and, therefore, that he belonged to the See also:Middle Academy. He lectured in a See also:garden called the Lacydeum, which was presented to him by Attalus I. of See also:Pergamum, and for twenty-six years maintained the traditions of the Academy. He is said to have written See also:treatises, but nothing survives. Before his See also:death he voluntarily resigned his position to his pupils, Euander and Telecles. Apart from a number of anecdotes distinguished rather for sarcastic See also:humour than for See also:probability, Lacydes exists for us as a See also:man of refined See also:character, a hard worker and an accomplished orator. According to See also:Athenaeus (x. 438) and See also:Diogenes Laertius (iv. 6o) he died from excessive drinking, but the See also:story is discredited by the eulogy of See also:Eusebius (Praep. Ev. xiv. 7), that he was in all things moderate. See See also:Cicero, Acad. ii.

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Aelian, V.H.' ii. 41; also articles ACADEMY, ARCESILAUS, See also:CARNEADES.

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