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Next came Polyaenus,One of the four pillars of the school: a great geometer until he became an Epicurean (Cic. Ac. Pr. 106 and De fin. i. 20). A letter of Epicurus to him is mentioned by Seneca (Ep. 18. 9). son of Athenodorus, a citizen of Lampsacus, a just and kindly man, as Philodemus and his pupils affirm. Next came Epicurus’s successor Hermarchus, son of Agemortus, a citizen of Mitylene, the son of a poor man and at the outset a student of rhetoric.
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There are in circulation the following excellent works by him:
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Correspondence concerning Empedocles, in twenty-two books. Of Mathematics. Against Plato. Against Aristotle.
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He died of paralysis, but not till he had given full proof of his ability.
