Chrysippus
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“But,” answered Nero, “your favourite Chrysippus wrote still more numerous books.”
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
The part of the dialogue now extant, contains a refutation of the doctrine of Chrysippus the Stoic, which was that of fatality.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John
Capaneus was not, as it seems, such as the honest Chrysippus describes, in his treatise On those things which are not eligible for their own sakes.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
The chief objects of his study, however, 364 were the works of Chrysippus, opposition to whose views is the mainspring of his philosophy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
Like the earlier Stoics, Cleanthes and Chrysippus, he held that virtue may be taught.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
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