biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (5th-c BC)
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| biography:
| Greek Sophist philosopher, a contemporary of Socrates. He was vividly portrayed in Plato's dialogues as a virtuoso performer as teacher, orator, memory man, and polymath. He also discovered a curve used for trisecting a triangle (the quadratrix). Only fragments of his vast literary output have survived. |
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