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where he became a pupil of Clitomachus, whom he succeeded as head of the Third or New Academy in 110-109 BC. According to Sextus Empiricus, he was the founder of a "Fourth Academy", but other writers refuse to admit the separate existence of more than three academies. He was the teacher of Antiochus of Ascalon who would become his adversary in the Platonist school.

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