Megara
noun
a city in ancient Greece: the chief city of Megaris.
Megaric
-
a word derived from
Megara.
Example Sentences
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He came to Athens, and learned philosophy under Crates the Cynic, Stilpo the Megaric, and Polemo the Academic.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
At Megara Plato passed some time with the Megarian Eucleides, his fellow-disciple in the society of Socrates and the founder of what is termed the Megaric school of philosophers.
From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
The Megaric philosophy was a combination of the thought of Socrates with that of the Eleatics.
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
The school of the Megaric philosophers was a very celebrated one; and its chief, as I see it stated in books, was Xenophanes, whom I mentioned just now.
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
