Antipater of CYRENE
Ἀντίπατρος
(Ἀντίπατρος), of CYRENE, one of the disciples of Aristippus, the founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy. (D. L. 2.86.) According to Cicero (Tuscul. 5.38) he was blind, but knew how to console himself by saying, that darkness was not without its pleasures.
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