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    Anaxarchus

    historical figure · 6 works · 8 mentions · 9 anchored passages

    Anaxarchus the Democritean · Anaxarchus the Eudaemonic · Anaxarchus the follower of Democritus

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    Anaxarchus the Eudaemonic1 mention

    Stromata (Greek)

    Well, then, does Anaxarchus the Eudaemonic write in his work On Kingship:
    book 1

    in the texts

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Philosopher who cried out that the tyrant pounds only his pouch, not himself, while being pounded with iron pestles.

    for Anaxarchus you do not pound," when he was being pounded by the tyrant with iron pestles.
    book 4
    Well, then, does Anaxarchus the Eudaemonic write in his work On Kingship:
    book 1
    Hearers of Democritus were Protagoras of Abdera and Metrodorus of Chios, whose pupil was Diogenes of Smyrna, whose pupil Anaxarchus, and of him Pyrrho, of whom Nausiphanes.
    book 1

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Philosopher who, while executed by pounding in a mortar, declared that his true self was not being harmed, only his bodily covering.

    but a Greek man offered his body to be beaten as a kandys, as a cloak;
    oration 37
    For this man, having fallen into a mortar and being struck with the pestles, himself said he was not being pounded, but that of his own which happened to be wrapped about him;
    oration 37
    And I do not mention those brief Laconic matters—the Spartans enslaved to the Persians, and Dionysius at Corinth, and the condemnation of Socrates, and the exile of Xenophon, and the death of Pherecydes, and the wretchedness of Anaxarchus;
    oration 64

    On the Nature of the GodsHellenistic · Latin

    Philosopher of the Democritean school, tortured to death by a tyrant of Cyprus.

    We have heard that Anaxarchus the Democritean was tortured to death by the tyrant of Cyprus, that Zeno of Elea was slain amid torments;
    book 3

    Tusculan DisputationsHellenistic · Latin

    A follower of Democritus who, having fallen into the hands of King Timocreon in Cyprus, deprecated and refused no torture.

    let one think of Anaxarchus the follower of Democritus, who, when in Cyprus he had fallen into the hands of King Timocreon, deprecated no kind of torture and refused none.
    book 2

    The Rights of War and PeaceRenaissance · English

    Greek philosopher whose saying about divine will and justice is reported by Plutarch.

    This law admits of what Anaxarchus said, as Plutarch relates in the life of Alexander, though without sufficient accuracy, that God does not will a thing, because it is just, but that it is just, or binding, because God wills it.
    chapter 8

    ApologeticumLate Antiquity · Latin

    Greek philosopher pounded to death in a mortar, said to have jested about his own body ('husk') even as he died.

    Anaxarchus, when he was being pounded with a pestle to the death, like barley-groats, kept saying, "Pound, pound the husk of Anaxarchus, for Anaxarchus you do not pound":
    apologeticum