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(Vol. I) Diogenes Laërtius
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

Book IV

 p443  Chapter 10
Clitomachus
(Head of the Academy from 129 B.C.)

67 Clitomachus was a Carthaginian, his real name being Hasdrubal, and he taught philosophy at Carthage in his native tongue. He had reached his fortieth year when he went to Athens and became a pupil of Carneades. And Carneades, recognizing his industry, caused him to be educated and took part in training him. And to such lengths did his diligence go that he composed more than four hundred treatises. He succeeded Carneades in the headship of the school, and by his writings did much to elucidate his opinions. He was eminently well acquainted with the three sects — the Academy, the Peripatetic, and the Stoics.

The Academics in general are assailed by Timon in the line:

Having thus reviewed the Academics who derived from Plato, we will now pass on to the Peripatetics, who also derived from Plato. They begin with Aristotle.

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