Cleombrotus of Ambracia

Cleombrotus of Ambracia, an academic philosopher who is said to have thrown himself down from a high wall, after reading the section on the Soul in Phaedon of Plato; not that he had any sufferings to escape from, but that he might exchange this life for a better. (Callimach. Epigr. 60, ap. Brunck, Anal. i. p. 474, Jacobs, i. p. 226 ; Agath. Schol. Ep. 60. v. 17, ap. Brunck, Anal. iii. p. 59, Jacobs, iv. p. 29; Lucian, Philop. 1; Cic. pro Scaur. ii. 4, Tusc. i. 34; Augustin. de Civ. Dei, i. 22; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. iii. p. 168.) The disciple of Socrates, whom Plato mentions as being in Aegina when Socrates died, may possibly be the same person. (Phaedon, 2, p. 59, c.)

A cynic philosopher, the disciple of Metrocles, wrote a work on education (Paidagogikos), which is quoted by Diogenes Laërtius (vi. 75, 95).

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Δημητρίω στέφανος. Τιμητικός τόμος για τον καθηγητή Δημήτρη Λυπουρλή. Επιμέλεια: Α. Βασιλειάδης, Π. Κοτζιά, Αι. Δ. Μαυρουδής, Δ.Α. Χρηστίδης, Θεσσαλονίκη, UNIVERSITY STUDIO PRESS, 2004, 474 pp. ISBN 960-12-1345-7