Chrysippus

, a natural son of Pelops, highly favoured by his father, for which Hippo dam i a, his stepmother, ordered her own sons, Atreus and Thyestes, to kill him, and to throw his body into a well, on account of which they were banished. Some say that Hippo dam i a’s sons refused to murder Chrysippus, and that she did it herself. They further say, that Chrysippus had been carried away by Laius king of Thebes, to gratify his unnatural lusts, and that he was in his arms when Hippo dam i a killed him. Hyginus , fable 85.— Plato , de Leges , bk. 6 .— Apollo dor us , bk. 3 , ch. 5 .— Pausanias , bk. 6 , ch. 20 .――A stoic philosopher of Tarsus, who wrote about 311 treatises. Among his curious opinions was his approbation of a parent’s marriage with his child, and his wish that dead bodies should be eaten rather than buried. He died through exce of wine, or, as others say, from laughing too much on seeing an a eating figs on a silver plate, 207 B.C., in the 80th year of his age. Valerius Maximus , bk. 8 , ch. 7 .— Diodorus. — Horace , bk. 2 , satire 3, li. 40 . There were also others of the same name. Diogenes Laërtius. ――A freedman of Cicero.