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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 Yonge, Charles Duke

The Megaric statues and the Hermæ, which you mentioned in your letters, I am waiting for impatiently.

From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Shuckburgh, Evelyn S.

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 Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

Antisthenes founded the Cynic school, Aristippus the Cyrenaic, and Euclid the Megaric.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

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 Yonge, Charles Duke