1463,
1544-1554).

=Philosopher of Wimbledon= (_The_), John Horne Tooke, author of the
_Diversions of Purley_. He lived at Wimbledon, near London (1736-1812).

(For the philosophers of the different Greek sects, as the Cynic,
Cyrenaic, Eleac, Eleatic, Epicurean, Haraclitian, Ionic, Italic,
Megaric, Peripatetic, Sceptic, Socratic, Stoic, etc., see _Dictionary of
Phrase and Fable_, 680-1.)

=Philosophers= (_The five English_): (1) Roger Bacon, author of _Opus
Majus_ (1214-1292;[TN-90] (2) Sir Francis Bacon, author of _Novum
Org[)a]num_ (1561-1626); (3) the Hon. Robert Boyle (1627-1691;[TN-91] (4)
John Locke, author of a treatise on the _Human Understanding and Innate
Ideas_ (1632-1704); (5) Sir Isaac Newton, author of _Princip'ia_
(1641-1727).

=Philosophy= (_The Father of_), (1) Albrecht von Haller, of Berne
(1708-1777). (2) Roger Bacon is also so called (1214-1292).

_Philosophy_ (_The Father of Inductive_), Francis Bacon [_Lord Verulam_]
(1561-1626).

_Philosophy_ (_The Father of Roman_), Cicero, the orator (B.C.)
106-43).[TN-92]

_Philosophy_ (_The Nursing Mother of_). Mde. de Boufflers was so called
by Marie Antoinette.

=Phil'ostrate= (3 _syl._), master of the revels to Theseus (2 _syl._) king
of Athens.--Shakespeare, _Midsummer Night's Dream_ (1592).

=Philo'tas=, son of Parmenio, and commander of the Macedonian cavalry. He
was charged with plotting against Alexander the Great. Being put to the
rack, he confessed his guilt, and was stoned to death.

The king may doom to me a thousand tortures,
Ply me with fire, and rack me like Philotas,
Ere I will stoop to idolize his pride.

N. Lee, _Alexander the Great_, i. 1 (1678).

=Philot'ime= (4 _syl._, "_love of glory_"), daughter of Mammon, whom the
money-god offers to Sir Guyon for a wife; but the knight declines the
honor, saying he is bound by love-vows to another.--Spenser, _Fa[:e]ry
Queen_, ii. 7 (1590).

=Philot'imus=, Ambition personified. (Greek, _Philo-t[=i]mus_, "ambitious,
covetous of honor.")--Phineas Fletcher, _The Purple Island_, viii.
(1633).

_Philotimus_, steward of the house in the suite of Gargantua.--Rabelais,
_Gargantua_, i. 18 (1533).

=Philpot= (_Senior_), an avaricious old hunks, and father of George
Philpot. The old city merchant cannot speak a sentence without bringing
in something about money. "He wears square-toed shoes with little tiny
buckles, a brown coat with small brass buttons.... His f