Definitions for Cleanthes

Cleanthes Cle·an·thes

Spelling: [klee-an-theez]
IPA: /kliˈæn θiz/

Cleanthes is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 576 anagrams from letters in Cleanthes (aceehlnst).

Definitions for Cleanthes

noun

  1. c300–232? b.c, Greek Stoic philosopher.

Examples for Cleanthes

Cleanthes, a poor boy, was anxious to attend the school of Zeno.

The chief representatives of the Stoics were Zeno and Cleanthes.

Perhaps he is some Cleanthes, who has been a boxer in the public games.

Some of the treatises of Cleanthes were written expressly to confute him.

Cleanthes, the Stoic philosopher, was a native of this place.

He was followed by Cleanthes, and then by Chrysippus, as leaders of the school.

Cleanthes, you have said, attributes the idea that men have of the Gods to four causes.

Cleanthes was succeeded by Chrysippus, who died about 208 B. C.

Anaxagoras, Democritus, and Cleanthes say that all the stars have their motion from east to west.

The quotation in Acts xvii, 28, may be from Cleanthes or from Aratus.

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