CYRENAICS, THE

a Gk. philoschool founded by_Aristippus of So crates. They held that the only good is the pleasure moment, and all else valuable sofar as it produces pleasure. tippus himself, though thoroughly ‘man of the world,’ valued wisdom culture as liberating a man from circumstances; his followers often either into licentiousne or into illusioned pe imism, original capital of ancient district Cyrenaica, N. Africa; situated on of Jebel Akhdar, about 10 miles now in complete ruins; built middle of VII. cent. B. C., and have been called after a local became a great city and pa ed to in 96. ©.; mostly ruined Christian era, and became deserted Arab conquest, 641 A. D.; said to once had a population of over.