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Founder of the Peripatetics—Aristotle, who used to teach his disciples in the covered walk of the Lycēum. This colonnade was called the peripʹatos, because it was a place for walking about (peri pateo).
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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.