Cleanthes
Americannoun
noun
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I consider Cleanthes the patron saint of nail-biters.
From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2018
He was followed by Cleanthes, and then by Chrysippus, as leaders of the school.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)
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
This is the Zeus of the philosophers, of the Stoics, of Cleanthes: but he was already the Zeus of the ancient poets.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
Cleanthes produced very little that was original, though he wrote some fifty works, of which fragments have come down to us.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various
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