person
Charmides the Epicurean
Charmides
also: Charmides, Charmide, Charmides Epicureus
An Epicurean and close friend of the Academic Arcesilas. In De Finibus 5.94 Cicero relates that when Charmides visited the gout-stricken Arcesilas and left downcast, Arcesilas called him back to say that none of the pain had reached from his feet and chest to his mind.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §5.94 Charmides the Epicurean, a close friend
An Epicurean friend of Arcesilas. When he left the gout-stricken Arcesilas downcast, Arcesilas called him back to say the pain had reached only his feet and chest, not his mind.