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Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty."
Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty."
Approximate author period: c. 200 AD · classical
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- Diogenes Laertius
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- Approximate author period: c. 200 AD · classical
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Chrysippus. iii.
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