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Clitomachus - LoveToKnow 1911 (219 words) |
 | CLITOMACHUS, Greek philosopher, was a Carthaginian originally named Hasdrubal, who came to Athens about the middle of the 2nd century B.C. at the age of twenty-four. |
| Clitomachus' works were some four hundred in number; but we possess scarcely anything but a few titles, among which are De sustinendis assensionibus (Hot E7roxis, "on suspension of judgment") and ll€pc aipErcwv (an account of various philosophical sects). |
| In 146 he wrote a treatise to console his countrymen after the ruin of their city, in which he insisted that a wise man ought not to feel grieved at the destruction of his country. |
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