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| PERIPATETICS | |
| Form: Gr. peripatetikoi, lit. "persons given to walking, about". | |
| The followers of Aristotle's philosophy. They derived their name from Aristotle's habit of walking with his disciples in the shady avenues of the Athenian Gymnasium called the Lyceum, while he discussed the problems of philosophy. (See also |
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