Chrysippus

[ krahy-sip-uhs, kri- ]

/ kraɪˈsɪp əs, krɪ- /

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

QUIZZES

Even if you can't be a professional chef, you can at least talk like one with this vocabulary quiz.

Question 1 of 9

You may have read the word "simmer" in a recipe or two, but what does it really mean?

But according to Chrysippus, they have not so much as this difference.
Essays and Miscellanies|Plutarch
One Cluvius has left him a prop 183erty at Puteoli, and the house has tumbled down; but he has sent for Chrysippus, an architect.
The Life of Cicero|Anthony Trollope
If this is so, progress is clearly nothing else than knowing a great deal of Chrysippus.
A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus With the Encheiridion|Epictetus
"Give me a doctrine and I will find the reasons for it," said Chrysippus.
Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley|T. H. Huxley

For Chrysippus was of opinion that in the last conflagration of the world all the gods were to die but Jupiter.
The Essays of Montaigne, Complete|Michel de Montaigne