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PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOL OF

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ELIS
PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOL OF ELIS
ELIS, or ELEIA

ELIS . This school was founded by

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PHAEDO

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PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

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SOCRATES

Socrates . It existed for a very

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SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

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time and was then transferred by

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MENEDEMUS

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ERETRIA (mod. Aletria)

Eretria, where it became known as the Eretrian school . Its

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CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief members, beside Phaedo, were Anchipylus,

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MOSCHUS

Moschus and Pleistanus (see PIIAEDO and MENEDEMUS) .

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