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Metrodorus wrote the following works: Against the Physicians, in three books. Of Sensations. Against Timocrates. Of Magnanimity. Of Epicurus’s Weak Health. Against the Dialecticians. Against the Sophists, in nine books. The Way to Wisdom. Of Change. Of Wealth. In Criticism of Democritus. Of Noble Birth.
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Next came Polyaenus,One of the four pillars of the school: a great geometer until he became an Epicurean (Cic. Ac. Pr. 106 and De fin. i. 20). A letter of Epicurus to him is mentioned by Seneca (Ep. 18. 9). son of Athenodorus, a citizen of Lampsacus, a just and kindly man, as Philodemus and his pupils affirm. Next came Epicurus’s successor Hermarchus, son of Agemortus, a citizen of Mitylene, the son of a poor man and at the outset a student of rhetoric.
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There are in circulation the following excellent works by him:
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Correspondence concerning Empedocles, in twenty-two books. Of Mathematics. Against Plato. Against Aristotle.
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He died of paralysis, but not till he had given full proof of his ability.
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And then there is Leonteus of Lampsacus and his wife Themista, to whom Epicurus wrote letters; further, ColotesColotes, a great admirer of the master, wrote a work to prove that life is impossible by the rules of any other philosophy. Plutarch wrote a tract against him: Πρὸς Κολώτην 1107 e-1127; and also a rejoinder entitled, Οὐδὲ ζῆν ἔστιν ἡδέως κατ’ Ἐπίκουρον, to prove that even a pleasurable life is unattainable on the principles of Epicurus. and Idomeneus, who were also natives of Lampsacus. All these were distinguished, and with them Polystratus, the successor of Hermarchus; he was succeeded by Dionysius, and he by Basilides. Apollodorus, known as the tyrant of the garden, who wrote over four hundred books, is also famous; and the two Ptolemaei of Alexandria, the one black and the other white; and ZenoCf. Cic. Ac. Post. 146; N.D. i. 59. of Sidon, the pupil of Apollodorus, a voluminous author;
