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Callisthenes

Callisthenes · m

a philosopher of Olynthus

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Where it lives

Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 1 · 2.46/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 11 · 1.48/10k
De Divinatione 3 · 1.09/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 2 · 1.09/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 5 · 0.88/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 2 · 0.25/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

Callisthĕnes — Lewis & Short

Callisthĕnes, is, m., = *kallisqe/nhs,

I a philosopher of Olynthus, sister's son and pupil of Aristotle, and a youthful friend of Alexander the Great; finally put to death by him for his freedom of speech, Curt. 8, 5, 13 sqq.; 8, 6, 25; 8, 8, 21; Cic. Rab. Post. 9, 23. Theophrastus bewailed his death in the work entitled *kallisqe/nhs h)\ peri\ pe/nqous, Cic. Tusc. 3, 10, 21; 5, 9, 25; cf. Sen. Q. N. 6, 23, 1 sqq.; Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 13, 4.

In the wild

Callisthenen Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 8.6.24
Callisthene Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5.25
Callisthenes Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.3e.1
Callisthenes Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 8.5.20
Callisthene Cicero, De Divinatione 2.54
Callisthenes Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 2.11.4

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Where it came from

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