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==References== {{Reflist|20em|refs= <ref name=buyu>{{cite book |title=The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy |last=Bunnin & Yu |year=2004 |location=Oxford |publisher=Blackwell Publishing}}</ref> <ref name=jones>{{cite book |title=Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary. 17th edition |first=Daniel |last=Jones |year=2006 |publisher=Cambridge UP }}</ref> <ref name=laerti2>[[Apollodorus of Athens]] (reported by [[Diogenes Laërtius]], ''Lives of Eminent Philosophers'', [http://www.attalus.org/old/diogenes10a.html#14 10.14–15]) gives his birth on the fourth day of the month February in the third year of the 109th [[Olympiad]], in the [[Archon of Athens|archonship]] of Sosigenes</ref> <ref name=stanf>{{Cite book |chapter-url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epicurus/#2 |title=Epicurus - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |publisher= Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University|chapter=Epicurus |year=2018 }}</ref> <ref name=brita>{{cite web |url=http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/2010/08/the-hidden-history-of-greco-roman-vegetarianism/ |title=The Hidden History of Greco-Roman Vegetarianism |date=10 August 2010 }}</ref> <ref name=dombr>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nSLoTGecabsC&q=haussleiter+correctly+judges&pg=PA81 |title=The Philosophy of Vegetarianism |first=Daniel A. |last=Dombrowski |year=1984 |publisher=University of Massachusetts Press |isbn=978-0870234316 }}</ref> <ref name="bitsori">{{cite journal |last1=Bitsori |first1=Maria |last2=Galanakis |first2=Emmanouil |title=Epicurus' death |journal=World Journal of Urology |year=2004 |volume=22 |issue=6 |pages=466–469 |doi=10.1007/s00345-004-0448-2 |pmid=15372192 |s2cid=41741603 }}</ref> <ref name=laerti3>In the second year of the 127th Olympiad, in the archonship of Pytharatus, according to [[Diogenes Laërtius]], ''Lives of Eminent Philosophers'', [http://www.attalus.org/old/diogenes10a.html#15 10.15]</ref> <ref name=intra>{{cite web | url=http://www.intratext.com/IXT/LAT0230/_PL.HTM | title=Epistulae morales ad Lucilium}}</ref> <ref name=folse>{{cite book |url=http://www.loyno.edu/~folse/Epicurus.html |title=How Epicurean Metaphysics leads to Epicurean Ethics |first=Henry |last=Folse |year=2005 |publisher=Department of Philosophy, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA }}</ref> <ref name=konstan>{{cite book |chapter-url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epicurus/ |title=Epicurus, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |first=David |last=Konstan |year= 2018|publisher= Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University|chapter=Epicurus |edition=Fall 2013 }}forthcoming URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2013/entries/epicurus/></ref> <ref name=yapij>{{cite journal |last=C |first=Yapijakis |title=Hippocrates of Kos, the father of clinical medicine, and Asclepiades of Bithynia, the father of molecular medicine. 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