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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to some ancient Greek named Nicomachus; particularly, either
  • Nicomachus, physician to Amyntas II., King of Macedonia, and the father of Aristotle, the philosopher, or
  • Nicomachus the Younger, a son of Aristotle, who, like his father and grandfather, was also an author.
  • the “Ethics of Aristotle,” said to have been published by Nicomachus the Younger after his father's death.

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