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PHILO OF LARISSA

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 413 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PHILO
PHILO, HERENNIUS

PHILO OF See also:
LARISSA (Turk. Yeni Shehr, " new town ")
LARISSA , See also:

Greek philosopher of the first See also:

HALF

half of the 1st See also:

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

century B.C. During the Mithradatic See also:

WARS

wars he See also:

LEFT

left See also:

Athens and took up his See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence in See also:

Rome. He was 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:

CLITOMACHUS

Clitomachus, whom he succeeded as See also:

head of the Third or New See also:

Academy. According to Sextus Empiricus, he was the founder of the See also:

FOURTH

Fourth Academy, but other writers refuse to admit the See also:

SEPARATE

separate existence of more than three See also:

ACADEMIES

academies (see ACADEMY, GREEK). In Rome he lectured on See also:

RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

rhetoric and See also:

PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy, and collected around him many eminent pupils, amongst whom See also:

CICERO

Cicero was the most famous and the most enthusiastic. None of his See also:

WORKS

works is extant; our knowledge of his views is derived from See also:

NUMENIUS

Numenius, Sextus Empiricus and Cicero. In See also:

general, his philosophy was a reaction against the sceptic or agnostic position of the See also:

MIDDLE

Middle and New Academy in favour of the dogmatism of See also:

PLATO

Plato. See Grysar, See also:

Die Akademiker Philo and See also:

ANTIOCHUS

Antiochus (1849) ; See also:

Hermann, De Philone Larissaeo (See also:

GOTTINGEN

Gottingen, 1851 and 1855).

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