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What does Xenocrates mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (c. 396–314 BCE) An Ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, and the second leader (scholarch) of the Platonic Academy from 339 to 314 BCE.
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Plutarch writes about an attempt by Xenocrates to calculate the total number of syllables which could be made from the letters of the alphabet.
Xenocrates embraced the young man, and admitted him among his disciples.
Aristotle then accompanied Xenocrates to the court of his friend Hermias of Atarneus in Asia Minor.
Xenocrates says that the stars are moved in one and the same superficies.
Christine then, lovely and charming enough to wreck the chastity of a Xenocrates, would sleep naked with her uncle!
A reference, in part, to Aristotle, who for three years lived and taught in Assos with Erastus and Xenocrates.

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