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Funes el memorioso, Artificios, Ficciones, OC,Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 488.
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Metrodorus of Lampsacus, Epicurean philosopher, c.331-278, or Metrodorus of Scepsis, philosopher and writer, fl. c.70 B.C.
Fishburn and Hughes: "Metrodorus of Scepsis, in Mysia, was celebrated for his powers of memory and his hatred of Rome. Pliny (7.24.1) wrote that Metrodorus perfected Simonides' art of memory so that 'a man might learn to rehearse again the same words of any discourse whatsoever, after hearing them once'. He is also referred to by Cicero, who says that 'he wrote down things he wanted to remember in certain "localities" in his possession by means of images, just as if he were inscribing letters on wax' (De Oratore 2.360)." (128)