Hieronymus of Rhodes, commonly called a peripatetic, though Cicero questions his right to the title, was a disciple of Aristotle, and contemporary with Arcesilaus, about 300 BC. He appears to have lived down to the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus. He is frequently mentioned by Cicero, who tells us that he held the highest good to consist in freedom from pain and trouble, and denied that pleasure was to be sought for its own sake. There are quotations from his writings Peri methes, historika hupomnemata or ta sporaden hupomnemata, and from his letters. It would seem from Cicero (Or. 56), compared with Rufinus (de Comp. et Metr. p. 318,), that lie was the same as the Hieronymus who wrote on numbers and feet. (Athen. ii. p. 48, b., v. p. 217, d., x. p. 424, f. p. 435, a., xi. p. 499, f., xiii. p. 556, a. p. 557, e. p. 601, f. p. 604, d. ; Strab. viii. p. 378. ix. p. 443, x. p. 475, xiv. p. 655 ; Diog. Laërt. iv. 41, 45; Plut. Ags. 13, Arist. 27 ; Vossius, de Hist. Graec. pp. 82, 83, ed. Westermann ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 306, vol. iii. p. 495, vol. vi. p. 131.)