Academic philosopher, probably born in 187/6 BC in Carthage, died in 110/109. Original name Hasdrubal (Philod. Academicorum Index 25.1-2). Presumably came to Athens in 163/2 (information in Diog. Laert. 4,67 is wrong). He entered the Academy in 159/8 After an elementary education of sorts with Carneades [1], and studies in the Peripatos and the Stoa. Occasionally, his participation in the philosophers' delegat…
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Stanzel, Karl-Heinz (Tübingen) and
Decker, Wolfgang (Cologne),
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