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Indeed Antipater, in his writings concerning the
difference between Cleanthes and Chrysippus, has related
that Zeno and Cleanthes would not be made citizens of
Athens, lest they might seem to injure their own countries.
I shall not much insist upon it, that, if they did well,
Chrysippus acted amiss in suffering himself to be enrolled
as a member of that city. But this is very contradictory
and absurd, that, removing their persons and their lives so
far off amongst strangers, they reserved their names for
their countries; which is the same thing as if a man,
leaving his wife, and cohabiting and bedding with another,
and getting children on her, should yet refuse to contract
marriage with the second, lest he might seem to wrong the
former.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 4.
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