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PERIPATUS

Volume 8 · 48 words · 1778 Edition

(anc. geog.) the place where Aristotle taught; a part of the Lyceum, a gymnasmus at Athens, situate on the banks of the Ilissus. The reason of the appellation is, that Aristotle walked as he taught. (Cicero, Diogenes Laertius). Peripatetici the name of the sect or followers of Aristotle.