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{{Short description|Ancient Greek philosopher}}
{{For|the 6th-century BC Pythagorean|Calliphon of Croton}}
'''Calliphon''' (or Callipho, {{langx|grc-x-koine|Καλλιφῶν}}) was a [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[philosopher]], who probably belonged to the [[Peripatetic school]] and lived in the 2nd century {{abbr|BCE|Before Common Era}}.<ref>Fortenbaugh, W., White S., (2002), ''Lyco of Troas and Hieronymus of Rhodes'', Page 119. Transaction Publishers</ref> He is mentioned several times and condemned by [[Cicero]] as making the chief good of man to consist in a union of virtue ({{langx|la|honestas}}) and bodily pleasure ({{langx|grc|ἡδονή}}, {{langx|la|voluptas}}), or, as Cicero says, in the union of the human with the beast.<ref>Cicero, ''de Finibus'', ii. 6, 11, iv. 18, v. 8, 25, ''de Officiis'', iii. 33, ''Tusculanae Quaestiones'', v. 30, 31; Clement of Alexandria, ''Stromata'', 2. § 127.</ref>

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[[Category:2nd-century BC Greek philosophers]]
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