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An TIOCHUS was an Afcalonite , t Brother of Arifius , Difciple oi Ehilo. He lived with L. Lu- cullus , the Quacftor , and Gene- he was alfo a great Friend to ^Atticus, whom he invited to the Academy. He is named by Sextus Empcricus, as Conftitutor of di ffth Academy : For, as t Elutarch faith, he fell off from the Seft of Carneades, either moved by the evidence of Senfe, or, as fome thought, by ambition, and dilTention with the Difciples of Clitomachus and Fhilo. So that with fome little alteration, he made ule of the DG£lrins of the Stoicks •, and ^ though he were called an Academic k, he had been, but for Ibme alterations , an abfolute Stoick ^ t whence it was laid of him. He taught the Stoical Ehijofophy in the Acadeny 5 for he maaifefted, that the Do-
8:rins of the Stoicks were in TIato. In his old age, laith ^ he betook himlelf to the old* Academicks, forlaking the t and diligently enquiring into the opinion of the Antients,
^ endeavoured to follow Arijiotle and XenocraAAcad.qu tes^, profelTing, that tl^e and Eeripate-'^^'‘^'‘^^”‘^* , ticks agreed in the thing, and differed only in words. To which efte£f Licero mentions a Book which he fent to Balbus : He wrote allb another againft his Mailer Ebilo , cntituled Sofus. t Cicero being at Athens heard him, and ^ was much taken with the el^iquence and vo- ^ lubility of his Difcourle, (* declaring him* Plut. vit* • to be the moll polite and accute of all Phi-;^'‘^9'* ■
lolbphers in his time) t but not with the new Do£ttine which he introduced.
Thus far there is a continued feries of the Academick Philolbphers.
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