person
Clitomachus of Carthage
Clitomachus
also: Clitomachum
Academic philosopher of the second century BC, pupil and successor of Carneades as head of the Academy, prolific in committing Carneades' teaching to writing. Cicero (Orator 51) cites Carneades' jest that Clitomachus said the same things, but Charmadas said them in the same manner too.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §3.54 We have read the book of Clitomachus
Clitomachus of Carthage (187/6-110/9 BC), head of the New Academy and pupil of Carneades, who wrote a consolation to his fellow Carthaginians after the city's fall in 146 BC. He preserved in it an argument of Carneades.