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Phaedrus (Epicurean philosopher)
Phaedrus
also: Phaedro, Phaedrus, Phaedri
Phaedrus was an Epicurean philosopher and predecessor of Patro as head of the Epicurean school at Athens. He had been known to Cicero since Cicero's youth (before Cicero heard Philo of Larissa c. 88 BC), and was remembered as a good man as well as a philosopher. His 'entreaty' was cited by Patro as moral authority for his claim to Epicurus's property.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 13.39 §2 Phaedrus, On the Gods
A treatise by Phaedrus the Epicurean (head of the Athens school, c. 70 BC), whom Cicero had heard as a young man; he wants the book for his own philosophical writing. "On the Gods" renders the Greek peri Theon (theon = "of the gods"), the title's subject, not a person's name.
- Ad Atticum 16.7 §4 a pupil of our friend Phaedrus
Phaedrus was the head of the Epicurean school at Athens whose lectures Cicero had attended in his youth; an Epicurean, indifferent to public duty, would have had an easy excuse for slipping away, which Cicero (no Epicurean) cannot claim.
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §1.16 Phaedrus
Phaedrus was the head of the Epicurean school at Athens whom the young Cicero heard and admired. Cicero cites him to establish his own first-hand knowledge of Epicurean doctrine.