Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    Crantor

    historical figure · 4 works · 7 mentions · 7 anchored passages

    the Old Academic

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    Tusculan DisputationsHellenistic · Latin

    Philosopher and author of a Consolation cited for the Elysius of Terina anecdote.

    for he says that a certain Elysius of Terina, when he was grievously mourning the death of his son, came to a place of consulting the dead, asking what had been the cause of so great a calamity;
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    And not absurdly did Crantor — who was among the very foremost noble men in our Academy — say:
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    Nature brings the pain, to which indeed your Crantor, they say, thinks one must yield;
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    AcademicaHellenistic · Latin

    Academic philosopher who maintained the tradition received from Plato's early successors.

    But Speusippus and Xenocrates, who were the first to take up Plato's method and authority, and after them Polemo and Crates, and together with them Crantor, gathered in the Academy, diligently maintained what they had received from their predecessors.
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    LucullusHellenistic · Latin

    Old Academic philosopher, author of a celebrated short treatise on grief.

    We have all read the book of Crantor, the Old Academic, on grief;
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    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Academic philosopher, pupil of Polemo.

    Hearers of Polemo were Crates and Crantor, in whom the Old Academy from Plato came to an end.
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