Chrysippus
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This problem was taken up by Chrysippus, who admitted that he could not solve it.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
Its true refutation, as it is supposed to have been given by Chrysippus, is explained by Cicero in his book De Fato, ch.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
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
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.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
A great part of his time was spent, when a youth, among the learned doctors; the disciples of Plato, Chrysippus and Aristotle.
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