a Stoic philosopher, born at Soli in Cilicia. He was a disciple of Cleantus, successor of Zeno, and wrote many books, several of which related to logic. None of the philosophers dogmatized in stronger terms of the fatal necessity of everything, or declaimed more pompously of the liberty of man, than the Stoics, particularly Chrysippus, who was held of so much importance among them as to give rise to the proverbial remark, that "if Chrysippus had not existed the Porch could not have been." Yet the Stoics complained, as Cicero relates, that he had collected many arguments in favour of the sceptical hypothesis, which he could not answer himself, and had thus furnished Carneades, their antagonist, with weapons against them. An apophthegm of this philosopher does him honour. Being told that some person spoke ill of him, he said—"It is no matter, I will live so that he shall not be credited."

This was also the name of several ancient physicians; and likewise of a celebrated ecclesiastical writer, about A.D. 450, whose only remaining work, besides some fragments, is a treatise entitled Homilia de Sancta Deipara. (Cave, Hist. Lit., vol. i.)