克林德是高出生率和大国的人在曼丁尼亚城市，而是由当时的机会，正好是从那里推动。作为一个有亲密的友谊和他之间公干Craugis，在菲洛佩门，谁是一个非常出色的人的父亲，他定居在城市群，在那里，而他的朋友住，他有他的愿望。当Craugis去世，他偿还在孤儿的儿子照顾父亲的热情善良，通过这种方式菲洛佩门是他的教育，在荷马说，跟腱是凤凰城，从他的婴儿，以高尚的塑造和崇高的倾向。但Ecdemus和Demophanes有他的主要学费，过去后，他的童年岁。他们都是Megalopolitans，他们已经在学术哲学的学者，以及阿斯西老斯的朋友，并超过其同时代的任何新的人文施加压力的行动和国家事务。他们已经从他们的国家暴政
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    CLEANDER was a man of high birth and great power in the city of Mantinea, but by the chances of the time happened to be driven from thence. There being an intimate friendship betwixt him and Craugis, the father of Philopoemen, who was a person of great distinction, he settled at Megalopolis, where, while his friend lived, he had all he could desire. When Craugis died, he repaid the father's hospitable kindness in the care of the orphan son; by which means Philopoemen was educated by him, as Homer says Achilles was by Phoenix, and from his infancy moulded to lofty and noble inclinations. But Ecdemus and Demophanes had the principal tuition of him, after he was past the years of childhood. They were both Megalopolitans; they had been scholars in the academic philosophy, and friends to Arcesilaus, and had, more than any of their contemporaries, brought philosophy to bear upon action and state affairs. They had freed their country from tyranny