Clitomachus
historical figure · 2 works · 6 mentions · 9 anchored passages
in the texts
Lucullus
Prolific Academic philosopher and pupil of Carneades, teacher of Philo and of Heraclitus of Tyre.
'Then your master Philo gave his attention to Clitomachus for many years.
Of these the greatest industry was in Clitomachus (the multitude of his books declares it), no less genius in Hagnon, eloquence in Charmadas, charm in Melanthius of Rhodes;
'When I was proquaestor at Alexandria, Antiochus was with me, and already before that there was at Alexandria a friend of Antiochus, Heraclitus of Tyre, who had been a pupil of Clitomachus for many years and of Philo as well — a man approved and renowned in that philosophy which is now almost dismissed but is being recalled.
Tusculan Disputations
Academic philosopher who wrote a consolatory book for the Carthaginian captives after the destruction of Carthage.
We have read the book of Clitomachus, which he sent, after Carthage was overthrown, for the sake of consoling the captives, his fellow-citizens;
In which the most noble philosophers spent their lives — Xenocrates, Crantor, Arcesilaus, Lacydes, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Zeno, Cleanthes, Chrysippus, Antipater, Carneades, Clitomachus, Philo, Antiochus, Panaetius, Posidonius, and innumerable others, who, once having gone out, never returned home.