Philalethes
Philalethes (Greek: φιλαλήθης, philaléthēs, pronounced [filalétɛːs]) was an Ancient Greek name, also often adopted in pseudonyms (based on its literal translation, "lover of truth"). It may apply to:
- Alazonomastix Philalethes, pseudonym of Henry More
- Alexander Philalethes
- Demosthenes Philalethes
- Eirenaeus Philalethes, alchemical writer, now usually identified with George Starkey
- Eugenius Philalethes, alchemical writer, now usually identified with Thomas Vaughan (philosopher)
- Irenaeus Philalethes, pseudonym of Lewis Du Moulin
- Philalethes Cantabrigiensis, pseudonym of James Jurin
- Philalethes, pen-name of William Hazlitt
- Philalethes, pseudonym of John of Saxony as translator of Dante's Divine Comedy
- Philalethes, pen-name of Henry Portsmouth, author of An index to William Penn's Works, 1730
See also[]
- Philalethes Society, Masonic group
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- Surnames