Chrysippus
3. A pupil of Erasistratus (
D. L. 7.186), who must have lived therefore in the third century B. C. Some persons think he was the author of the work
De Brassica, "On the Cabbage," mentioned by Pliny (
Plin. Nat. 20.33) and Plinius Valerianus (
De Med. 4.29), but this is quite uncertain.