[Ads-l] Antedating of "Hedonist"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Fri Aug 5 00:55:22 UTC 2022


Hedonist (OED 1856)

1806 George Ensor _The Independent Man_ 302 (Google Books)

They confounded his [Epicurus's] philosophy with that of Aristippus, the Hedonist.

Fred Shapiro

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