quote his exact words, " If one were to strip the books of Chrysippus of all extraneous quotations, his pages would he left bare." So much for Apollodorus. Of Chrysippus the old woman who sat beside him used to say, according to Diocles, that he wrote 500 lines a day. Hecato says that he came to the study of philosophy, because the property which he had inherited from his father had been confiscated to the king's treasury. In person he was insignificant, as is shown by the statue in the Ceramicus, which is almost hidden by an equestrian statue hard by ; and this is why Carneades called him Crypsippus or Horse-hidden. Once when somebody reproached him for not going with the multitude to hear Ariston, he rejoined, " If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy." When some dialectician got up and attacked Cleanthes, proposing sophistical fallacies to him, Chrysippus called to him. " Cease to distract your elder from matters of importance ; propound such quibbles to us juniors." Again, when somebody who had a question to ask was steadily conversing with him in private, and then upon seeing a crowd approaching began to be more contentious, he said : Ah ! brother mine, thine eye is growing wild : To madness fast thou'rt changing, sane but now." At wine-parties he used to behave quietly, though he was unsteady on his legs ; which caused the woman-slave to say, " As for Chrysippus, only his legs get tipsy." His opinion of himself was so high that when some one inquired, " To whom shall I entrust my son ? " he replied, " To me : for, if I had dreamt of there being anyone better than