Laughing Philosopher
.Democʹritos of Abdeʹra, who viewed with supreme contempt the feeble powers of man. (B.C. 460–357.) (See Weeping Philosopher.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.