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Polyaenus of Lampsacus

Polyaenus

also: Polyaeno, Polyaenus

A mathematician of Lampsacus who became one of Epicurus's earliest and closest associates, abandoning geometry for the Epicurean school. Cicero remarks that Epicurus would have rejected the doctrine of indivisible minima had he learned geometry from Polyaenus instead of trying to un-teach it to him.

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On the Ends of Good and Evil philosophy · 2 mentions

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