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Chrysippus on the immortality of the soul, i.

Like the earlier Stoics, Cleanthes and Chrysippus, he held that virtue may be taught.

The centinel and bandy-legg’d drummer!——nothing on this side of old Athens could equal them! they read their lectures under the city-gates to comers and goers, with all the pomp of a Chrysippus and a Crantor in their porticos.

“But,” answered Nero, “your favourite Chrysippus wrote still more numerous books.”

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.