Note 40 — Chapter III · HISTORY OF THE STOICS UNTIL THE END OF THE SECOND CENTURY B.C.
Oswald J. (Oswald Joseph) Reichel translation
When a learner, he is said to have used these words to Cleanthes: ‘Give me the principles; the proofs I can find myself.’ Subsequently it was said of him: ‘If the Gods have any logic, it is that of Chrysippus’ (Diog. 179). See Cic. N. D. i. 15, 30, where the Epicurean calls him Stoicorum somniorum vaferrimus interpres: ii. 6, 16; iii. 10, 25: Divin. i. 3, 6: Chrysippus acerrimo vir ingenio. Senec. Benefic. i. 3, 8; 4, 1, complains of his captiousness. Dionys. Hal. Comp. Verb. 68, calls him the most practical logician, but the most careless writer. Krische, Forsch. i. 445. ↑