Cleo'mbrotus
(
*Kleo/mbrotos), an Academic philosopher of Ambracia, who is said to have thrown himself down from a high wall, after reading the
Phaedon of Plato; not that he had any sufferings to escape from, but that he might exchange this life for a better. (Callimach.
Epigr. 60, ap. Brunck,
Anal. i. p. 474, Jacobs, i. p. 226 ; Agath. Schol.
Ep. 60. 5.17, ap. Brunck,
Anal. iii. p. 59, Jacobs, iv. p. 29; Lucian,
Philop. 1; Cic.
pro Scaur. 2.4,
Tusc. 1.34; Augustin.
de Civ. Dei, 1.22; Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. iii. p. 168.)
The disciple of Socrates, whom Plato mentions as being in Aegina when Socrates died, may possibly be the same person. (
Phaedon, 2, p. 59c.)
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