Erastus
*)/Erastos), of Scepsis in Troas, is mentioned along with Coriscus, a native of the same place, among the disciples of Plato (
D. L. 3.46); and the sixth among the letters attributed to Plato is addressed to those two Scepsians. Strabo (
xiii. p.608) classes both men among the Socratic philosophers. (Ast,
Platon's Leben u. Schrift. p. 519; C. F. Hermann,
Gesch. u. System d. Plat. Philos. i. pp. 425, 592, &c.)
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