CHRYSIPPUS, kri-sip'pris (Lat., from Gk. Xplicrerros) (c.280-207 B.c.). An eminent Stoic philosopher of Soli in Cilieta. Ile came to Athens when still a youth, and eagerly de voted himself to philosophieal pursuits. His principal master w.is Cleanthes, the successor of Zeno, although he is said to have also studied under the academic teachers. Arcesilaus and Laeydes. and learned from them what were the objections urged by skeptics against the doe trines of the Stoics. He possessed an eager and facile mind, and enjoyed the reputation of being the keenest disputant of his time: yet his dis courses were clever and subtle rather than se riously argumentative. His confidence in his own abilities was so great that, according to tradition, he told Cleauthes he desired to know only the principles of his system. the argu ments he would find for himself: it was also his common practice to take at different times opposite sides of the same question, so that he furnished his opponents with the means of convicting him of inconsistency. Carneades
(q.v.). his chief adversary, especially availed himself of this opportunity. In philosophy he was an expounder. not an originator. IIis liter ary industry was great. ]le is said to have written no fewer than 500 lines each day. and Diogenes 1.1i4•tius speaks of over 705 books by him. These were in the fiods of philosophy proper. logic, physics. ethics. grammar. and in terpretation of the poets; only fragments re main in the works of Plutarch, .Elian, Cicero. Seneea, and Anbas Gellins. These were edited by Petersen. 1827; fitter and Prelim. (Gotha. SA). Consult : Baguet. rfr Chrysippi Vita, Doe Irina of neliguiis (Paris. 1882) : Zeller. Philos°.
ie der arierhen (Leipzig, 1SR 1 ) .