Cleanthes
Americannoun
noun
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I consider Cleanthes the patron saint of nail-biters.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2018
This is the Power addressed in the famous hymn of Cleanthes, and that appealed to in the familiar τοῦ γὰρ καὶ γένος ἐσμέν of Aratus.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.
On this account he was accused of impiety by the Stoic Cleanthes, just as Galileo, in later years, was attacked by the theologians.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
He has added the part of Cleanthes, the wife of Sosia, suggested to him by a line put into the mouth of Sosia by Plautus— “Quid me expectatum non rere amicæ meæ venturum.”
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John
Cleanthes gave the reason for the sun returning towards the equator on reaching the solstices, that it could not go too far away from the source of its nourishment.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.
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