Life
He is said by Diogenes Laërtius to have been the pupil of Paraebates, who was a pupil of Epitimedes, who was a pupil of Antipater of Cyrene, who was a pupil of Aristippus (435-c.360 BCE). He was the fellow-student of Anniceris, from whom, however, he differed by presenting in its most pessimistic form the system which Anniceris softened and improved.
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