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Brewer's: Abou ebn Sina
commonly called Avicenna. A great Persian physician, born at Shiraz, whose canons of medicine were those adopted by Hippocrates and Aristotle. Died 1037. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Acroamatics
Acroamat′ics Esoterical lectures; the lectures of Aristotle, which none but his chosen disciples were allowed to attend. Those given to the public generally were called exoteric. (…Brewer's: Amicus Plato, sed magis amica Veritas
(Plato I love, but I love Truth more) A noble dictum attributed to Aristotle, but certainly a very free translation of a phrase in the Nicomachean Ethics (“Where both are friends, it is…Brewer's: Cube
A faultless cube. A truly good man; a regular brick. (See Brick.) O g wz alhqwz agaqoz kai teragwuoz aueu yogou —Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, i. 11, sec. 11. Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Divine Speaker
(The). So Aristotle called Tyrtamos, who therefore adopted the name of Theophrastos (B.C. 370-287). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Divining RodDivine Plant…Brewer's: Anachronism
An event placed at a wrong date; as when Shakespeare, in Troilus and Cressida, makes Nestor quote Aristotle. (Greek, ana chronos, out of time.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E…Brewer's: Peripatetics
Founder of the Peripatetics—Aristotle, who used to teach his disciples in the covered walk of the Lyceum. This colonnade was called the peripatos, because it was a place for walking about…Brewer's: Philoxenos of Leucadia
A great epicure, who wished he had the neck of a crane, that he might enjoy the taste of his food the longer. (Aristotle: Ethies, iii. 10.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…The History of Color
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Acad′emy Divided into —Old, the philosophic teaching of Plato and his immediate followers; Middle, a modification of the Platonic system, taught by Arcesilaos; New, the half-sceptical…Trending
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