Deino'machus
(
*Deino/maxos), a philosopher, who agreed with Calliphon in considering the chief good to consist in the union of virtue with bodily pleasure, which Cicero calls a joining of the man with the beast.
The doctrine is thus further explained by Clement of Alexandria :--Pleasure and virtue are both of them
ends to man; but pleasure is so from the first, whilevirtue only
becomes so after experience. (Cic.
de Fin. 5.8,
de Off. 3.33,
Tusc. Quest. 5.30; Clem. Alex.
Strom. 2.21.) The Deinomachus, whom Lucian introduces in the
Philopseudes, is of course a different person, and possibly a fictitious character.
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