- WEEPING PHILOSOPHER
- a sobriquet given to HERACLITUS (q.v.) from a melancholy disposition ascribed to him, in contrast with DEMOCRITUS (q.v.), designated the laughing philosopher.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
WEEPING PHILOSOPHER
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