Chrysippus

[krahy-sip-uhs, kri-]

noun

1. 280–209? b.c., Greek Stoic philosopher.

Example Sentences

Chrysippus on the immortality of the soul, i.

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Like the earlier Stoics, Cleanthes and Chrysippus, he held that virtue may be taught.

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The centinel and bandy-legg’d drummer!——nothing on this side of old Athens could equal them! they read their lectures under the city-gates to comers and goers, with all the pomp of a Chrysippus and a Crantor in their porticos.

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“But,” answered Nero, “your favourite Chrysippus wrote still more numerous books.”

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Chrysippus, however, restricted to the best and noblest souls this future existence, which Cleanthes had awarded to all,205 and among the Roman Stoics even this was greatly doubted.

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