Cleanthes
Americannoun
noun
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I consider Cleanthes the patron saint of nail-biters.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2018
When we compare the conceptions of Euripides, of Plato, of Cleanthes, of Marcus Aurelius, with the conduct of the Homeric gods, we realize the distance traveled by the mind of man along ethical lines.
From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Roy Wood Sellars
Paul was obviously acquainted with the Hymn of Cleanthes, a Stoic writer of the third century, B.C., for he quoted his words on the Areopagus.
From Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries by Ruth Ellis Messenger
And Cleanthes the Tarentine, as Clearchus says, said everything while the drinking lasted, in metres.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
His relations with Cleanthes, contemporaneously criticized by Antipater, are considered under Stoics.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
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