A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Καλλιφῶν), a philosopher, and most probably a disciple of Epicurus, who is mentioned several times and condemned by Cicero as making the chief good of man to consist in an union of virtue (honestas) and bodily pleasure (ἡδονή, voluptas), or, as Cicero says, in the union of the man with the beast. (Cic. de Fin. 2.6, 11, 4.18, 5.8, 25, de Off. 3.33, Tusc. v. 30, 31; Clem. Alex. Strong. 2.127.)

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