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            <request>
                <requestName>GetPassage</requestName>
                <requestUrn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:M.metrocles_1</requestUrn>
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            <reply>
                <urn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:M.metrocles_1</urn>
                <passage>
                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="M"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="metrocles-bio-1" n="metrocles_1"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Metrocles</surname></persName></head><p>(<label xml:lang="grc">Μητροκλῆς</label>), of Maroneia, a brother of Hipparchia, was at
      first a disciple of Theophrastus, but afterwards he entered the school of Crates, and became a
      cynic. He seems to have been a man of great ability, and having reached an advanced age, he
      drowned himself. He wrote several works, all of which he is said to have burnt ; one of them
      bore the title of <title xml:lang="grc">Χρείαι</title>, of which a line is preserved in
      Diogenes Laertius (6.6; comp. 6.33, 2.102; Stob. <hi rend="ital">Serm.</hi> tit. 116. 48). </p><byline>[<ref target="author.L.S">L.S</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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