Megara
noun
a city in ancient Greece: the chief city of Megaris.
Megaric
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a word derived from
Megara.
Example Sentences
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With the Megaric school is usually classified the Cyrenaic founded by Aristippus.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
Though he had heretofore been somewhat acquainted with the doctrines of Socrates, he became a disciple of the Cynics, subsequently studying in the Megaric school, and then making himself acquainted with Platonism.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
He migrated first to Megara, where his friend and fellow-disciple Euclid was then founding the Megaric school.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
A famous dialectician of the Megaric Sect, named Diodorus, gave a negative answer to the first of these two questions and an affirmative to the second; but Chrysippus vehemently opposed him.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard
Afterwards came Euclid of Megara, a pupil of Socrates, from whom that school got the name of Megaric.
From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Charles Duke Yonge
