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Apollodorus in his Chronology tells us that our philosopher was a pupil of Nausiphanes and PraxiphanesIf this Praxiphanes was the pupil of Theophrastus, considerations of age would make it highly improbable that he could have taught Epicurus; cf. Usener, Fr. 123.; but in his letter to Eurylochus, Epicurus himself denies it and says that he was self-taught. Both Epicurus and Hermarchus deny the very existence of Leucippus the philosopher, though by some and by Apollodorus the Epicurean he is said to have been the teacher of Democritus. Demetrius the Magnesian affirms that Epicurus also attended the lectures of Xenocrates.
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The terms he used for things were the ordinary terms, and Aristophanes the grammarian credits him with a very characteristic style. He was so lucid a writer that in the work On Rhetoric he makes clearness the sole requisite.
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And in his correspondence he replaces the usual greeting, I wish you joy, by wishes for welfare and right living, May you do well, and Live well.
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AristonThis is no doubt the Academic philosopher, Ariston of Alexandria, pupil of Antiochus, criticized by Philodemus in his Rhetoric, V.H.2 iii. 168. says in his Life of Epicurus that he derived his work entitled The Canon from the Tripod of Nausiphanes, adding that Epicurus had been a pupil of this man as well as of the Platonist PamphilusCf. Suidas, s.v.; Cic. N.D. i. 72. in Samos. Further, that he began to study philosophy when he was twelve years old, and started his own school at thirty-two.
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He was born, according to Apollodorus in his Chronology, in the third year of the 109th Olympiad, in the archonship of Sosigenes,341 b.c. on the seventh day of the month Gamelion,The eighth month of the Attic civil year. Thus he would be born about February, 341 b.c. Plato died 347 b.c. in the seventh year after the death of Plato.
