=Philosopher of Wimbledon= (_The_), John Horne Tooke, author of the _Diversions of Purley_. He lived at Wimbledon, near London (1736-1812). (For the philosophers of the different Greek sects, as the Cynic, Cyrenaic, Eleac, Eleatic, Epicurean, Haraclitian, Ionic, Italic, Megaric, Peripatetic, Sceptic, Socratic, Stoic, etc., see _Dictionary of Phrase and Fable_, 680-1.) =Philosophers= (_The five English_): (1) Roger Bacon, author of _Opus Majus_ (1214-1292;[TN-90] (2) Sir Francis Bacon, author of _Novum Orgănum_ (1561-1626); (3) the Hon. Robert Boyle (1627-1691;[TN-91] (4) John Locke, author of a treatise on the _Human Understanding and Innate Ideas_ (1632-1704); (5) Sir Isaac Newton, author of _Princip´ia_ (1641-1727). =Philosophy= (_The Father of_), (1) Albrecht von Haller, of Berne (1708-1777). (2) Roger Bacon is also so called (1214-1292). _Philosophy_ (_The Father of Inductive_), Francis Bacon [_Lord Verulam_] (1561-1626). _Philosophy_ (_The Father of Roman_), Cicero, the orator (B.C.) 106-43).[TN-92] _Philosophy_ (_The Nursing Mother of_). Mde. de Boufflers was so called by Marie Antoinette. =Phil´ostrate= (3 _syl._), master of the revels to Theseus (2 _syl._) king of Athens.--Shakespeare, _Midsummer Night’s Dream_ (1592). =Philo´tas=, son of Parmenio, and commander of the Macedonian cavalry. He was charged with plotting against Alexander the Great. Being put to the rack, he confessed his guilt, and was stoned to death. The king may doom to me a thousand tortures, Ply me with fire, and rack me like Philotas, Ere I will stoop to idolize his pride. N. Lee, _Alexander the Great_, i. 1 (1678). =Philot´ime= (4 _syl._, “_love of glory_”), daughter of Mammon, whom the money-god offers to Sir Guyon for a wife; but the knight declines the honor, saying he is bound by love-vows to another.--Spenser, _Faëry Queen_, ii. 7 (1590). =Philot´imus=, Ambition personified. (Greek, _Philo-tīmus_, “ambitious, covetous of honor.”)--Phineas Fletcher, _The Purple Island_, viii. (1633). _Philotimus_, steward of the house in the suite of Gargantua.--Rabelais, _Gargantua_, i. 18 (1533). =Philpot= (_Senior_), an avaricious old hunks, and father of George Philpot. The old city merchant cannot speak a sentence without bringing in something about money. “He wears square-toed shoes with little tiny buckles, a brown coat with small brass buttons.... His face is all shrivelled and pinched with care, and he shakes his head like a mandarin upon a chimney-piece” (act i. 1).