2. Noun. (plural of stoic) ¹
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Definition of Stoics
1. stoic [n] - See also: stoic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stoics
Literary usage of Stoics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Philosophy: From Thales to the Present Time by Friedrich Ueberweg, George Sylvester Morris, Henry Boynton Smith, Noah Porter, Vincenzo Botta (1891)
"Yet not all of the stoics seem to have understood this necessity in so ...
But the later stoics returned, for the most part, to the earlier doctrine. ..."
2. A History of Classical Scholarship: From the Sixth Century B.C. to the End by John Edwin Sandys (1906)
"GRAMMAR was studied by the stoics, not as an end in itself, Grammar of but as a
... Much of their terminology has become the stoics a permanent part of the ..."
3. Aristotle by George Grote (1872)
"7, where Porphyry says that the stoics, as well as Aristotle, in arranging ...
67, Br. Hoto were distributed by the stoics into three varieties ; and the ..."
4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"And thus have we made it unquestionably evident, that the stoics acknowledged
only one independent and self-existent Deity, one universal Numen, ..."
5. Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology by Joseph Thomas (1901)
"The doctrine of the stoics that pain is not an evil has excited much wonder ...
Some of the stoics maintained that the wise man is perfect ; that he only is ..."
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