"There seems to be justification for assuming that Theophrastus employed the term in a pejorative sense of "pedant", but we should adhere to the positive meaning “scholastic”."
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January 1, 1970

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W. Fortenbaugh in: Hildegard Temporini, Wolfgang Haase Aufstieg und Niedergang der Romischen Welt (ANRW): Rise and Decline of the Roman World, Teil II: Principat, Walter de Gruyter, 1 June 1992, p. 3876