(χαμαιλέων; chamailéōn)
[1] Peripatetic, 2nd half of the 4th cent. BC
From Heraclea Pontica. Peripatetic of the 2nd half of the 4th cent. BC. He wrote works of a popular/ethical nature and a long series of anecdotal monographs on poets from Homer to Anaxandrides. His ethical views were conventional, and his entire body of work conditioned by the popularizing tradition of his school.
Bibliography
Wehrli, Schule 21969, 49-88
F. W…