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the Peripatetics

also: Peripatetici, Peripateticos, Peripateticorum, the Peripatetics

The school founded by Aristotle, named for the practice of debating while walking about (peripatein) in the Lyceum. Cicero treats it as one of the two names of a single philosophy issuing from Plato, sharing its substance with the Old Academy.

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Mentioned in 9 works (26 total)

On Invention rhetoric · 1 mention
On the Orator rhetoric · 2 mentions
Brutus rhetoric · 2 mentions
Orator: To Marcus Brutus rhetoric · 1 mention
Academica philosophy · 4 mentions
On the Ends of Good and Evil philosophy · 8 mentions
Timaeus (Latin translation) philosophy · 1 mention
Tusculan Disputations philosophy · 5 mentions
On Divination philosophy · 2 mentions

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