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See the Favorinus episode described in Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, 12.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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Favorinus 'report that Alcmaeon was the first to write such a treatise (DK, A1) is almost certainly wrong, since Anaximander wrote before Alcmaeon.
Alcmaeon Huffman, Carl 2008
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His novel conception of Academic philosophy had some impact on the work of Cicero, Plutarch, Favorinus and Augustine, but his radical innovations in epistemology and ethics sank almost without trace.
Philo of Larissa Brittain, Charles 2006
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But Favorinus himself, though in all other things he admires
Symposiacs 2004
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Favorinus was engaged in other matters, was started after supper.
Symposiacs 2004
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But Favorinus himself, though in all other things he admires
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Favorinus was engaged in other matters, was started after supper.
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A more enigmatic figure is Favorinus of Arles, a contemporary of Plutarch, whom Lucian and Galen considered an
SKEPTICISM IN ANTIQUITY PHILLIP DE LACY 1968
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Favorinus tells us how Epictetus would also say that there were two faults far graver and fouler than any others -- inability to bear, and inability to forbear, when we neither patiently bear the blows that must be borne, nor abstain from the things and the pleasures we ought to abstain from.
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus circa 55-135 AD Epictetus
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And Favorinus, who was a remarkably sensible man, and came from Provence -- the male inhabitants of which district have always valued themselves on their knowledge of love and ladies -- calls this said _stata forma_ the beauty of wives -- the uxorial beauty.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various
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