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Zeno of Citium

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | © The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable 2006, originally published by Oxford University Press 2006. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Zeno of Citium (c.335–c.263 bc), Greek philosopher, founder of Stoicism. He founded the school of Stoic philosophy, but all that remains of his treatises are fragments of quotations.

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