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17,000 citations drawn from 542 works so far. When a text names another work or author, the harvest records how: authority, neutral, refuted, extended, endorsed.
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60 of 12,637- Iliad 91 citations · from 38 works19 neutral 3 refuted 8 extended 21 endorsed
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wherein again he did rightly and worthily, in that, though he could not altogether quell his passion, yet he restrained and reduced it under the command of reason, before it brake forth into such an irreparable act of mischief.
ch. 1 · endorsed ¶ - Odyssey 49 citations · from 23 works15 neutral 3 refuted 7 extended 4 endorsed
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Nor does he feast the suitors on fish, exceedingly wanton and luxurious as they were, and that though they were feasting in Ithaca.
oration 2 · authority ¶ - Works and Days 24 citations · from 18 works2 neutral 1 refuted 3 extended 5 endorsed
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"for thrice ten thousand are upon the bountiful earth the immortal demons, guardians of mortal men.
protrepticus · authority ¶ - Psalms 81 citations · from 17 works1 neutral 1 refuted 2 extended
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" And let each of these, after the manner of blessed David, sing with thanksgiving:
book 1 · authority ¶ - Genesis 54 citations · from 17 works4 neutral 2 extended
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It is enough that the very ones whom he saves, found to be of an imperfect salvation, show his goodness to be imperfect — saved, namely, only as to the soul, lost as to the flesh, which with him does not rise again.
book 1 · authority ¶ - Gospel of Matthew 49 citations · from 17 works6 neutral 1 extended
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"Go, make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
letter 125 · authority ¶ - Epistle to the Romans 41 citations · from 16 works3 extended 1 endorsed
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" For "when the nations that do not have the Law do by nature the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves" — the uncircumcision keeping the ordinances of the Law, according to the Apostle, both before the Law and before the coming.
book 1 · authority ¶ - Acts of the Apostles 32 citations · from 16 works4 neutral
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For, it is said, the heart and soul of those who believed was one.
letter 128 · authority ¶ - Gospel of John 40 citations · from 14 works2 neutral 1 refuted 1 extended
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But if the Son frees you, you will be free," and "the truth will free you.
book 2 · authority ¶ - Book of Isaiah 32 citations · from 13 works1 neutral 1 extended
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Appeal now, as you are wont, to that comparison of Christ in Isaiah, contending that it suits in nothing.
book 3 · authority ¶ - Epistle to the Galatians 26 citations · from 13 works5 neutral 6 extended
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for to me the world has been crucified, and I to the world, as my divine teacher says.
chapter 2 · authority ¶ - Commentaries on the Laws of England 44 citations · from 12 works10 neutral 5 refuted 3 extended
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It hath been the endeavour of these commentaries, however the execution may have succeeded, to examine its solid foundations, to mark out its extensive plan, to explain the use and distribution of its parts, and from the harmonious concurrence of those several parts, to demonstrate the elegant proportion of the whole.
ch. 15 · authority ¶ - History (of the Peloponnesian War) 25 citations · from 12 works8 neutral
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” We find Thucydides of the same opinion, “that anciently lighter punishments were inflicted for the greatest crimes;
ch. 9 · authority ¶ - Deuteronomy 21 citations · from 12 works2 neutral
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" "For, in order to teach you his righteousness," it says, "he disciplined you and tested you and made you hunger and made you thirst in a desert land, that all his ordinances and judgments might be known in your heart, all that I command you today;
book 1 · authority ¶ - Histories 35 citations · from 11 works16 neutral 5 refuted 3 endorsed
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Polybius, relating the manner in which men first entered into society, concludes, that the injuries done to parents or benefactors inevitably provoke the indignation of mankind, giving an additional reason, that as understanding and reflection form the great difference between men and other animals, it is evident they cannot transgress the bounds of that difference like other animals, without exci …
book i, chapter i. · authority ¶ - Isaiah 34 citations · from 11 works3 neutral
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"You who thirst, go to the water," says Isaiah;
book 1 · authority ¶ - First Epistle to the Corinthians 29 citations · from 11 works1 refuted 4 extended 1 endorsed
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Since the Jews," he says, "ask for signs" toward faith, "and the Greeks seek wisdom" — the so-called compelling arguments and the other syllogisms — "but we proclaim Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling-block," because, knowing the prophecy, they do not believe its fulfilment, "and to the Greeks foolishness";
book 1 · authority ¶ - Laws 22 citations · from 11 works4 neutral 3 refuted 3 extended 2 endorsed
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In the Laws, indeed, Plato — that philosopher sprung from the Hebrews — bids the farmers neither to draw water for irrigation nor to take it from others, unless they have first dug for themselves down to the so-called virgin soil and found the ground without water.
book 1 · extended ¶ - Commentaries 13 citations · from 11 works6 neutral 1 refuted
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Sotion and Heraclides and Pamphila in the fifth book of her Commentaries distinguish two Perianders, one a tyrant, the other a sage who was born in Ambracia.
book 1 · neutral ¶ - 1 Corinthians 22 citations · from 10 works1 extended 1 endorsed
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"For our Passover has been sacrificed, even Christ" — a hard-to-find offering in truth, the Son of God being consecrated for us.
book 5 · authority ¶ - Republic 21 citations · from 9 works3 neutral 7 refuted 4 extended
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For example, it is possible for the citizens to have children, wives and possessions in common with each other, as in Plato’s Republic, in which Socrates says that there must be community of children, women and possessions.
book 2 · refuted ¶ - Book of Jeremiah 19 citations · from 9 works3 neutral
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But when, on coming into Cilicia and meeting a certain Gelasius, he set forth to him a creed which only Arius, or some genuine disciple of his, could have composed, then indeed we were the more confirmed in our separation, reckoning that neither will the Ethiopian ever change his skin, nor the leopard his spots, nor can one bred up in perverse doctrines wash off the evil of his heresy.
letter 130 · authority ¶ - Gospel of Luke 17 citations · from 9 works2 neutral 1 extended 1 endorsed
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says your Scripture, 'is in heaven over one sinner who repents.
chapter 30 · authority ¶ - First Epistle of John 15 citations · from 9 works
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And John too, in the greater Epistle, plainly teaches the differences of sins in these words:
book 2 · authority ¶ - Twelve Tables 40 citations · from 8 works3 neutral
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In the Twelve Tables the law of contract is still in a rudimentary stage.
ch. 116 · authority ¶ - Proverbs 27 citations · from 8 works1 neutral 1 extended 1 endorsed
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" Examined in other passages, however, the Scriptures cited present themselves as indicating other mysteries.
book 1 · authority ¶ - the Gospel 25 citations · from 8 works1 neutral
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For the Scripture hands down as clean and acceptable to God those of the sacrificial animals that part the hoof and chew the cud, as figuring that the just make their journey toward the Father and toward the Son through faith (for this is the steadfastness of the cleft-footed)—those who "meditate on the oracles of God night and day," and ruminate them in the receptacle of the soul that holds learning.
book 7 · authority ¶ - Exodus 19 citations · from 8 works1 neutral 1 extended
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Hence Moses, persuaded that God would never be known by human wisdom, says:
book 2 · authority ¶ - Jeremiah 16 citations · from 8 works1 extended
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but let him who boasts boast in this, to understand and to know that I am the Lord who does mercy and judgment and righteousness upon the earth, for in these is my will, says the Lord.
book 1 · authority ¶ - Epistle to the Ephesians 15 citations · from 8 works1 extended
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" All things, then, are ordered from above for good, "that through the Church the manifold wisdom of God may be made known," according to the foreknowledge of the ages, "which he wrought in Christ.
book 1 · authority ¶ - Second Epistle to the Corinthians 15 citations · from 8 works1 neutral 4 extended
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"I will dwell in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people," if we conduct ourselves according to the commandments, whether each of us severally or the whole Church together.
book 3 · authority ¶ - Book of Daniel 11 citations · from 8 works2 neutral
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"And behold, with the clouds of heaven, as the son of man, coming, he came even to the Ancient of days, and was present in his sight;
book 3 · authority ¶ - Ecclesiastes 11 citations · from 8 works
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"There is a time to be silent, and a time to speak," says the word of Ecclesiastes.
letter 223 · authority ¶ - Leviticus 10 citations · from 8 works
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both that in Leviticus, forbidding the priests to be present even at the last rites of parents ("Over every dead soul," it says, "the priest shall not enter, and over his own father he shall not be defiled"), and that of consecration in Numbers;
book 4 · authority ¶ - Homeric poetry 9 citations · from 8 works1 neutral 1 extended 1 endorsed
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You know, doubtless, that the sage Homer has written about practically everything pertaining to man.
chapter 4 · authority ¶ - Laws of Solon 9 citations · from 8 works2 neutral
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The old law of Solon, to which Demosthenes, in his speech against Timocrates, appeals, agrees with it.
ch. 11 · authority ¶ - Veda 17 citations · from 7 works1 neutral
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From fire, wind, and the sun, he milked forth the triple eternal Veda—distinguished as Ṛc, Yajus, and Saman—for the accomplishment of the sacrifice.
chapter 1 · authority ¶ - Ezekiel 11 citations · from 7 works1 endorsed
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" Again the Lord shows plainly that both the trespasses and the offences are in our power, laying down modes of cure corresponding to the passions, wishing us to be set right by the shepherds, through Ezekiel, blaming certain of them, I think, for the things in which they did not keep the commandments:
book 2 · authority ¶ - Timaeus 11 citations · from 7 works3 neutral 2 refuted 3 extended
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And in the Timaeus he brings in the most wise Solon learning from the barbarian.
book 1 · authority ¶ - Epistle to the Philippians 10 citations · from 7 works1 extended 1 endorsed
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For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
book 3 · authority ¶ - Iliad and Odyssey 10 citations · from 7 works4 neutral 1 extended
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So Homer too sets it as the greatest prayer, "a husband and a house" — but not simply, but "with noble like-mindedness";
book 2 · authority ¶ - Romans 10 citations · from 7 works1 extended 1 endorsed
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And the Apostle has shown the beneficence of the law, through the passage about the Jews, writing somewhat thus:
book 1 · authority ¶ - Memoirs 9 citations · from 7 works3 neutral
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Lucullus was trained to speak fluently both Latin and Greek, so that Sulla, in writing his own memoirs, dedicated them to him, as a man who would set in order and duly arrange the history of the times better than himself.
chapter 1 · authority ¶ - Aesop's fables 7 citations · from 7 works2 neutral 1 extended
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He is the one who tells us that the lark was born before all other creatures, indeed before the Earth;
birds · authority ¶ - Book of Jonah 7 citations · from 7 works1 extended
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yours, if you will only to believe and to follow the brief proclamation, obeying which the Ninevites, by genuine repentance, exchanged the expected capture for the fair salvation.
protrepticus · extended ¶ - Institutes 26 citations · from 6 works4 neutral 2 extended 1 endorsed
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In the same title of the Institutes, Justinian mentions that an heir might either be appointed to take the whole of an inheritance or to share it with other co-heirs in any proportions.
ch. 103 · authority ¶ - Aeneid 22 citations · from 6 works5 neutral 2 extended 1 endorsed
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Would you suppose that Virgil ever recited to such a man the line, "Is it then so wretched a thing to die?
letter 101 · authority ¶ - Roman Law 14 citations · from 6 works6 neutral
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Muirhead, Roman Law, §§ 26, 28.
de mvliervm tvtela. (2) · authority ¶ - Book of Job 12 citations · from 6 works1 endorsed
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"No one is clean from filth," says Job, "not even if his life be one day.
book 3 · authority ¶ - the Psalms 12 citations · from 6 works1 neutral
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For "the utterances of the Lord are sweeter than honey and the honeycombs.
book 4 · authority ¶ - Epistle to the Colossians 11 citations · from 6 works1 extended
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"In Christ you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ.
book 3 · authority ¶ - Ethics 10 citations · from 6 works2 neutral 1 refuted
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, and also Apollodorus in his Ethics.
book 7 · authority ¶ - Antigone 9 citations · from 6 works2 neutral 1 extended 2 endorsed
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This is what Antigone in Sophocles evidently means, when she declares that it is just, though forbidden, to bury Polynices, as being naturally just:
book 1 · authority ¶ - Daniel 9 citations · from 6 works
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Look, then, you too, with the king of Babylon, into his burning furnace, and you will find there, as it were the Son of man (for he was not yet truly so, namely not yet born of man), even then constituting these issues.
book 4 · authority ¶ - Phaedrus 8 citations · from 6 works1 neutral 1 refuted 1 extended
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and in the Phaedrus he shows the Egyptian king to be wiser even than Thoth, whom he knows to be Hermes.
book 1 · authority ¶ - unspecified historical work 8 citations · from 6 works3 neutral
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Coelius writes that Gaius Flaminius, having neglected religion, fell at Trasimene with a great wound to the commonwealth.
book 2 · authority ¶ - Letters 7 citations · from 6 works3 neutral
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[Seneca, Letters, 108.
fragments · neutral ¶ - History of Rome 16 citations · from 5 works4 neutral 1 refuted
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Livy too, speaking of king Evander, describes him as reigning more by personal authority than by his regal power;
ch. 10 · authority ¶ - Annals 15 citations · from 5 works8 neutral 1 refuted 1 endorsed
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Nero at the beginning of his reign in 54 a.
ch. 121 · neutral ¶ - Phaedo 12 citations · from 5 works2 neutral 3 refuted 1 extended
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"Great is Greece, O Cebes, in which there are everywhere good men, and many too are the races of the barbarians.
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60 of 5,605- Homer 419 citations · from 126 works105 neutral 23 refuted 36 extended 33 endorsed
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wherein again he did rightly and worthily, in that, though he could not altogether quell his passion, yet he restrained and reduced it under the command of reason, before it brake forth into such an irreparable act of mischief.
ch. 1 · endorsed ¶ - Plato 309 citations · from 76 works64 neutral 36 refuted 43 extended 24 endorsed
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"Great is Greece, O Cebes, in which there are everywhere good men, and many too are the races of the barbarians.
book 1 · authority ¶ - Euripides 179 citations · from 67 works59 neutral 26 refuted 14 extended 27 endorsed
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"And I understand what evils I am about to do, but my anger is stronger than my counsels.
book 2 · neutral ¶ - Solon 97 citations · from 56 works8 neutral 5 refuted 7 extended 8 endorsed
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The old law of Solon, to which Demosthenes, in his speech against Timocrates, appeals, agrees with it.
ch. 11 · authority ¶ - Athenian law 138 citations · from 53 works2 neutral 1 refuted 1 endorsed
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You have passed a law, fellow citizens, governing the men who steer the boats across the strait to Salamis;
against ctesiphon · authority ¶ - Aristotle 180 citations · from 52 works43 neutral 9 refuted 26 extended 13 endorsed
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The general demand for any thing, as Aristotle has clearly proved, constitutes the true measure of its value, which may be seen particularly from the practice prevailing among barbarous nations of exchanging one thing for another.
chapter xii.: on contracts. · authority ¶ - Hesiod 92 citations · from 52 works18 neutral 6 refuted 11 extended 11 endorsed
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"for thrice ten thousand are upon the bountiful earth the immortal demons, guardians of mortal men.
protrepticus · authority ¶ - Socrates 59 citations · from 37 works5 neutral 9 refuted 5 extended 11 endorsed
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CHORUS So it's a fine thing not to sit beside Socrates and chatter, casting off music and neglecting the greatest things of the tragic art.
frogs · refuted ¶ - Sophocles 70 citations · from 35 works27 neutral 8 refuted 3 extended 9 endorsed
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This is what Antigone in Sophocles evidently means, when she declares that it is just, though forbidden, to bury Polynices, as being naturally just:
book 1 · authority ¶ - Pindar 44 citations · from 32 works9 neutral 3 refuted 3 extended 4 endorsed
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Pindar writes of Agamedes and Trophonius, that after they had built a temple at Delphi, they requested of Apollo a reward for their work.
consolatio ad apollonium · authority ¶ - Aeschylus 50 citations · from 30 works10 neutral 7 refuted 6 extended 7 endorsed
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See how the lookers-on only cry out, but the man that received the stroke is silent.
ch. 1 · authority ¶ - Epicurus 154 citations · from 29 works36 neutral 57 refuted 9 extended 27 endorsed
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Epicurus himself, the very censurer of Stilbo, uttered a like saying, which you must take in good part, even though I have already cancelled today's debt.
letter 9 · endorsed ¶ - Plutarch 56 citations · from 29 works26 neutral 6 extended 1 endorsed
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Plutarch in the Lives of Lysander and Sulla makes his malady to have been morbus pedicularis.
book 4 · authority ¶ - Cicero 170 citations · from 28 works44 neutral 7 refuted 7 extended 9 endorsed
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It was only, however, a form of release from verbal obligations, but Aquihus Gallus, the colleague of Cicero in his praetorship, the pupil of Quintus Mucius and teacher of Servius Sulpicius, the inventor of formulas relating to dolus malus, Cic.
consensv obligationes. (2) · neutral ¶ - Theophrastus 49 citations · from 27 works19 neutral 6 refuted 5 endorsed
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Again — does Theophrastus give us only middling pleasure when he treats topics treated before him by Aristotle?
book 1 · endorsed ¶ - Moses 180 citations · from 26 works15 neutral 5 refuted 13 extended
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It is enough that the very ones whom he saves, found to be of an imperfect salvation, show his goodness to be imperfect — saved, namely, only as to the soul, lost as to the flesh, which with him does not rise again.
book 1 · authority ¶ - Simonides 35 citations · from 25 works13 neutral 3 refuted 4 extended 4 endorsed
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Simonides said that a student in philosophy should be like a bee.
ch. 1 · endorsed ¶ - Xenophon 49 citations · from 23 works13 neutral 2 refuted 6 endorsed
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He was the first to take notes of, and to give to the world, the conversation of Socrates, under the title of Memorabilia.
book 2 · authority ¶ - Paul 217 citations · from 22 works7 neutral 1 refuted 23 extended 7 endorsed
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Since the Jews," he says, "ask for signs" toward faith, "and the Greeks seek wisdom" — the so-called compelling arguments and the other syllogisms — "but we proclaim Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling-block," because, knowing the prophecy, they do not believe its fulfilment, "and to the Greeks foolishness";
book 1 · authority ¶ - Thucydides 50 citations · from 22 works15 neutral 1 refuted 1 extended
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” We find Thucydides of the same opinion, “that anciently lighter punishments were inflicted for the greatest crimes;
ch. 9 · authority ¶ - Demosthenes 48 citations · from 22 works10 neutral 9 refuted 2 extended 3 endorsed
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Demosthenes in his speech against Aristocrates, exclaims, “By all that is sacred, is it not a dreadful and open violation of law, not only of written law, but of that law which is the unwritten rule of all men, to be debarred from the right of using force against the robber as well as against the enemy;
ch. 11 · authority ¶ - Democritus 46 citations · from 22 works17 neutral 10 refuted 2 extended 9 endorsed
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and also Democritus, for he too says that Void and Plenum are present equally in any part, and yet the latter is, and the former is not.
book 4 · refuted ¶ - Heraclitus 44 citations · from 22 works10 neutral 6 refuted 6 extended 6 endorsed
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" Hence Heraclitus chose for himself one thing in place of all—glory—but the many, he says, glut themselves like cattle.
book 4 · authority ¶ - Apollo 33 citations · from 22 works1 neutral 1 refuted
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A witness is here at hand, the child of Olympian Zeus, who was not nursed in the darkness of a womb, and she is such a child as no goddess could give birth to.
eumenides · authority ¶ - Zeno 47 citations · from 21 works3 neutral 8 refuted 10 extended 3 endorsed
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They are discussed by Zeno in his treatise On the Whole, by Chrysippus in the first book of his Physics, and by Archedemus in a work On Elements.
book 7 · authority ¶ - Empedocles 45 citations · from 21 works14 neutral 10 refuted 6 extended
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That he belonged to Agrigentum in Sicily he himself testifies at the beginning of his Purifications:
book 8 · authority ¶ - Pythagoras 39 citations · from 21 works8 neutral 9 refuted 6 extended 4 endorsed
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And it seems to me that Pythagoras too took the gentleness toward the irrational animals from the law.
book 2 · extended ¶ - Archilochus 25 citations · from 21 works9 neutral 5 refuted 2 extended
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CLEONYMUS'S SON "Some Saian glories in my shield, which beside a bush, a faultless weapon, I left behind unwillingly.
peace · neutral ¶ - the poets 22 citations · from 20 works10 neutral 8 refuted 1 extended 2 endorsed
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As also Cheiron, in the legendary story of the poets, because of the pain from his wound prayed that though immortal he might die.
book 3 · neutral ¶ - David 87 citations · from 19 works3 extended
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" And let each of these, after the manner of blessed David, sing with thanksgiving:
book 1 · authority ¶ - Lycurgus 23 citations · from 19 works4 neutral 2 refuted 1 extended 4 endorsed
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And in doing this he first saw and judged the same thing that Lycurgus a little before had seen at Sparta:
book 2 · extended ¶ - Isaiah 73 citations · from 18 works5 neutral 1 refuted 1 extended
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Appeal now, as you are wont, to that comparison of Christ in Isaiah, contending that it suits in nothing.
book 3 · authority ¶ - Herodotus 29 citations · from 18 works11 neutral 5 refuted 2 endorsed
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And in Herodutus, Otanes describes a monarch as one whose acts are not subject to controul.
ch. 10 · neutral ¶ - Aristophanes 22 citations · from 18 works15 neutral 2 refuted 1 extended
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Eupolis, indeed, first of all craftily introduced his Maricas, having basely, base fellow, spoiled by altering my play of the Knights, having added to it, for the sake of the cordax, a drunken old woman, whom Phrynichus long ago poetized, whom the whale was for devouring.
clouds · authority ¶ - John 54 citations · from 17 works4 neutral 3 extended
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But if the Son frees you, you will be free," and "the truth will free you.
book 2 · authority ¶ - Aesop 21 citations · from 17 works5 neutral 1 refuted 5 extended 2 endorsed
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He is the one who tells us that the lark was born before all other creatures, indeed before the Earth;
birds · authority ¶ - Chrysippus 90 citations · from 16 works12 neutral 19 refuted 6 extended 5 endorsed
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This doctrine is laid down by Zeno of Citium in his treatise On Existence, Cleanthes in his work On Atoms, Chrysippus in the first book of his Physics towards the end, Archedemus in his treatise On Elements, and Posidonius in the second book of his Physical Exposition.
book 7 · authority ¶ - the Stoics 32 citations · from 16 works7 neutral 10 refuted 8 extended 1 endorsed
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They compose, then, first a certain art concerning the things we call impressions, and define both the force and the kinds of them, among these what kind a thing is that can be perceived and comprehended — in just as many words as the Stoics.
book 1 · neutral ¶ - Witnesses 31 citations · from 16 works1 refuted
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Kindly call witnesses to confirm what I have been saying.
on the mysteries · authority ¶ - Anaxagoras 29 citations · from 16 works9 neutral 10 refuted 3 extended 3 endorsed
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Anaxagoras of Clazomenae—prior to Empedocles in point of age, but posterior in his activities—says that the first principles are infinite in number.
book 1 · neutral ¶ - Protagoras 28 citations · from 16 works11 neutral 13 refuted 1 extended
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the circle touches the ruler not at a point, but 〈along a line〉 as Protagoras used to say in refuting the geometricians), so the paths and orbits of our heaven are not like those which astronomy discusses, nor have the symbols of the astronomer the same nature as the stars.
book 3 · authority ¶ - Jeremiah 43 citations · from 15 works4 neutral
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But when, on coming into Cilicia and meeting a certain Gelasius, he set forth to him a creed which only Arius, or some genuine disciple of his, could have composed, then indeed we were the more confirmed in our separation, reckoning that neither will the Ethiopian ever change his skin, nor the leopard his spots, nor can one bred up in perverse doctrines wash off the evil of his heresy.
letter 130 · authority ¶ - Jesus Christ 73 citations · from 14 works7 extended
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For "everyone," it says, "who takes the sword shall die by the sword.
letter 217 · authority ¶ - Isocrates 40 citations · from 14 works11 neutral 1 refuted 5 extended 5 endorsed
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If he does not furnish you with enough material in himself, you must compare him with others, as Isocrates used to do, because of his inexperience of forensic speaking.
book 1 · authority ¶ - Paul the Apostle 77 citations · from 13 works1 neutral 10 extended 2 endorsed
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As many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God, says the divine Apostle.
preface · authority ¶ - Manu 66 citations · from 13 works2 neutral 1 refuted
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this is the opinion of Manu.
chapter 1 · authority ¶ - Livy 42 citations · from 13 works13 neutral 2 refuted 1 endorsed
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Livy too, speaking of king Evander, describes him as reigning more by personal authority than by his regal power;
ch. 10 · authority ¶ - Polybius 27 citations · from 13 works5 neutral 2 extended 3 endorsed
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Polybius, relating the manner in which men first entered into society, concludes, that the injuries done to parents or benefactors inevitably provoke the indignation of mankind, giving an additional reason, that as understanding and reflection form the great difference between men and other animals, it is evident they cannot transgress the bounds of that difference like other animals, without exci …
book i, chapter i. · authority ¶ - Epicharmus 22 citations · from 13 works6 neutral 1 refuted 2 extended 4 endorsed
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as Epicharmus says, no sooner is it said than it is seen to be wrong.
book 13 · authority ¶ - Prodicus 14 citations · from 13 works7 neutral 1 refuted 2 endorsed
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For we would not hearken to any other of the recent meteorological sophists, except to Prodicus;
clouds · authority ¶ - William Blackstone 37 citations · from 12 works4 neutral 5 refuted 2 extended
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It hath been the endeavour of these commentaries, however the execution may have succeeded, to examine its solid foundations, to mark out its extensive plan, to explain the use and distribution of its parts, and from the harmonious concurrence of those several parts, to demonstrate the elegant proportion of the whole.
ch. 15 · authority ¶ - Cleanthes 31 citations · from 12 works5 neutral 7 refuted 5 extended 6 endorsed
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though he is not obliged to give much heed to such idle descants as those of Cleanthes, who, while he professeth himself an interpreter, plays the trifler, as in these passages of Homer:
ch. 1 · refuted ¶ - Theopompus 25 citations · from 12 works10 neutral 3 refuted 1 extended 2 endorsed
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Demosthenes, the father of Demosthenes, belonged to the better class of citizens, as Theopompus tells us, and was surnamed Cutler, because he had a large factory and slaves who were skilled workmen in this business.
chapter 4 · neutral ¶ - Theognis 19 citations · from 12 works6 neutral 2 refuted 1 endorsed
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Best of all for men on earth is never to be born, nor ever to look upon the rays of the keen sun;
book 3 · authority ¶ - Zeus 18 citations · from 12 works
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But the king said Odysseus had gone to Dodona that he might learn Zeus’ mind from the god's high oak tree, and know whether after so long an absence he should return to the dêmos of Ithaca openly, or in secret.
book 14 · authority ¶ - Orpheus 17 citations · from 12 works7 neutral 3 refuted 1 extended
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For Orpheus revealed to us the mysteries and abstinence from murder;
frogs · authority ¶ - Hippocrates 13 citations · from 12 works2 neutral 1 endorsed
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Cicero says that Hippocrates, the most renowned physician, left it in writing that he suspected certain brothers to be twins, since, when they had begun to fall ill at the same time and their disease grew worse at the same time and abated at the same time.
on fate · authority ¶ - Solomon 58 citations · from 11 works3 extended 1 endorsed
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" Examined in other passages, however, the Scriptures cited present themselves as indicating other mysteries.
book 1 · authority ¶ - Ennius 33 citations · from 11 works11 neutral 2 refuted 6 endorsed
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What of your own Alcmeon, who denies that his heart agrees with his eyes — does he not in the same place, his madness roused, cry, "whence rises this flame?
book 1 · neutral ¶ - Antisthenes 21 citations · from 11 works3 neutral 3 refuted 1 extended 2 endorsed
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He was a great controversialist, according to Antisthenes in his Successions of Philosophers.
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746 recurring targets · 10,510 named onceA
- A. V. Dicey 5 citations
- Ab Urbe Condita Livy 1 citation
- Academica Cicero 1 citation
- Acts of the Apostles Luke 32 citations
- Adam Smith 9 citations
- Aelius Aristides 1 citation
- Aeneas Tacticus 4 citations
- Aeneid Virgil 22 citations
- Aeschines 12 citations
- Aeschylus 44 citations
- Aesop's fables Aesop 7 citations
- Against Alcibiades Phaeax 1 citation
- Against Aristocrates Demosthenes 2 citations
- Against Pantaenetus Demosthenes 1 citation
- Against Timocrates Demosthenes 1 citation
- Against the Sophists Demetrius of Troezen 1 citation
- Ajax unnamed tragic poet 4 citations
- Alcmaeon Astydamas 3 citations
- Alexander Pope 1 citation
- Alexandra Lycophron 1 citation
- Alexis de Tocqueville 7 citations
- Amores Ovid 1 citation
- Amos Amos 5 citations
- Anabasis Xenophon 3 citations
- Anabasis of Alexander Arrian 2 citations
- Ancient Law Henry Sumner Maine 11 citations
- Ancient Laws of Ireland unnamed compilers (Irish law commissioners) 3 citations
- Ancient Society Mr. Lewis Morgan 1 citation
- Andocides 1 citation
- Andria Terence 1 citation
- Andromache Euripides 1 citation
- Annales Tacitus 2 citations
- Annals Tacitus 15 citations
- Anonymous (Vedic) 17 citations
- Antidosis Isocrates 1 citation
- Antigone Sophocles 9 citations
- Antiphon 7 citations
- Antisthenes 2 citations
- Apocalypse (Revelation) John 3 citations
- Apocalypse of John John 5 citations
- Apocalypse of John (Revelation) John 2 citations
- Apollodorus 28 citations
- Apology Plato 2 citations
- Apuleius 1 citation
- Arcesilaus 2 citations
- Archilochi Cratinus 3 citations
- Archilochus 7 citations
- Ariston 3 citations
- Aristophanes 20 citations
- Aristotle 157 citations
- Art of Rhetoric Callippus 4 citations
- Arthaśāstra unspecified statecraft tradition 2 citations
- Arthur Young 2 citations
- Articles of Confederation Continental Congress 4 citations
- Athenian laws Athenian lawgivers 3 citations
- Atri 3 citations
- Attic Nights Aulus Gellius 8 citations
- Autobiography John Stuart Mill 5 citations
- Aṅgiras 2 citations
- De Agri Cultura Cato the Elder 1 citation
- De Anima Zeno of Citium, Antipater, and Posidonius 1 citation
- The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1 citation
B
- Bacchae Euripides 4 citations
- Bacchylides 5 citations
- Basil of Caesarea 3 citations
- Bhṛgu 5 citations
- Bias 3 citations
- Bill of Rights Convention Parliament of 1689 2 citations
- Bion 3 citations
- Boethius 4 citations
- Book of Amos Amos 5 citations
- Book of Daniel Daniel 11 citations
- Book of Deuteronomy Moses 3 citations
- Book of Esther Scripture 2 citations
- Book of Exodus Moses 2 citations
- Book of Ezekiel Ezekiel 5 citations
- Book of Hosea Hosea 2 citations
- Book of Isaiah Isaiah 32 citations
- Book of Jeremiah Jeremiah 19 citations
- Book of Job Job 12 citations
- Book of Joel Joel 5 citations
- Book of Jonah Scripture 7 citations
- Book of Malachi Malachi 3 citations
- Book of Numbers unknown (Scripture) 6 citations
- Book of Proverbs Solomon 8 citations
- Book of Revelation John 4 citations
- Book of Zechariah Zechariah 4 citations
- Bracton's treatise on the laws of England Bracton 3 citations
- Bṛhaspati 17 citations
- Bṛhaspati Smṛti Bṛhaspati 1 citation
- De beneficiis Seneca 2 citations
- book of Joshua unnamed biblical author 2 citations
- book of Judges unnamed biblical author 2 citations
- the Book of Isaiah Isaiah 2 citations
C
- Callimachus 10 citations
- Callistratus 1 citation
- Carneades 2 citations
- Cato 3 citations
- Cato Cicero 3 citations
- Cesare Beccaria 1 citation
- Charles Darwin 3 citations
- Charmides Plato 1 citation
- Chilo 2 citations
- Chronica Majora Matthew Paris 7 citations
- Chrysippus 3 citations
- Cicero 5 citations
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius 6 citations
- City of God Augustine 3 citations
- Claudian 1 citation
- Cleanthes 3 citations
- Clement of Alexandria 3 citations
- Clouds Aristophanes 1 citation
- Code Napoléon Napoleon I 6 citations
- Code Pénal French Legislature (Napoleonic codification) 2 citations
- Code of Justinian Justinian 6 citations
- Colossians Paul the Apostle 4 citations
- Commentaries Pamphila 10 citations
- Commentaries on American Law James Kent 5 citations
- Commentaries on the Laws of England William Blackstone 44 citations
- Commentary on the Aeneid Servius 2 citations
- Commentary on the Institutes Moyle 3 citations
- Comparative Politics Edward A. Freeman 3 citations
- Concerning the Team of Horses Isocrates 1 citation
- Confirmatio Cartarum Crown and Parliament (medieval) 2 citations
- Conflict of Laws Joseph Story 2 citations
- Constitution of Georgia State of Georgia 2 citations
- Constitution of Maryland State of Maryland 2 citations
- Constitution of New York State of New York 2 citations
- Constitution of North Carolina State of North Carolina 2 citations
- Constitution of South Carolina State of South Carolina 3 citations
- Constitution of the Athenians Aristotle 2 citations
- Constitution of the United States the framers of the Constitution 19 citations
- Constitutional History Mr. Stubbs 3 citations
- Controversiae Seneca the father 2 citations
- Controversiae illustres Fernando Vasquez (Vasquius) 2 citations
- Controversies Protagoras 2 citations
- Cornelius Nepos 6 citations
- Corpus Juris Roman law compilers 3 citations
- Corpus Juris Civilis Justinian 2 citations
- Crates 2 citations
- Cratylus Plato 3 citations
- Crito Plato 1 citation
- Cypria unnamed epic poet 4 citations
- Cyropaedia Xenophon 2 citations
- De Communibus Notitiis adversus Stoicos Plutarch 1 citation
- De consolatione philosophiae Boethius 1 citation
- The Constitution of the United States the framers of the constitution 6 citations
- The Constitutional History of England William Stubbs 4 citations
- commentary on the Dream of Scipio Eulogius 2 citations
- comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero Caecilius 1 citation
- the canon law the canonists (canon law tradition) 3 citations
- the common law English common law tradition 8 citations
D
- Daniel Daniel 9 citations
- David Hume 8 citations
- David Ricardo 1 citation
- De diaeta acutorum Hippocrates 1 citation
- De divinatione Chrysippus 1 citation
- Declaration of Independence Continental Congress 7 citations
- Decree of Callisthenes Callisthenes of Phalerum 2 citations
- Decree of Philocrates Philocrates 2 citations
- Defence of Usury Jeremy Bentham 1 citation
- Deipnosophistae Athenaeus 1 citation
- Delphic inscription 'Know thyself' Delphic oracle (Apollo) 4 citations
- Delphic maxim (know thyself) Apollo 2 citations
- Delphic maxims (Know thyself, Nothing overmuch) traditional Delphic wisdom 2 citations
- Delphic oracle Apollo 3 citations
- Demades 2 citations
- Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville 1 citation
- Democritus 5 citations
- Demosthenes 41 citations
- Derry v. Peek House of Lords 7 citations
- Description of Greece Pausanias 3 citations
- Deuteronomy Moses 21 citations
- Dharmaśāstra unspecified sacred law tradition 2 citations
- Dialogus de Scaccario Richard FitzNeal 6 citations
- Dicaearchus 3 citations
- Digest Justinian (compilers) 36 citations
- Digest (Corpus Juris Civilis) Justinian (compiler) 4 citations
- Digest (excerpts) Papinian 5 citations
- Dinarchus 1 citation
- Diodorus Siculus 10 citations
- Diogenes Laertius 5 citations
- Dionysius 2 citations
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus 9 citations
- Divine Institutes Lactantius 5 citations
- Domesday Book unknown (medieval royal survey commissioners) 2 citations
- deposition witnesses 2 citations
- depositions witnesses 2 citations
- doctrine of the soul's immortality Pherecydes of Syros 3 citations
- doctrine of transmigration of souls Pythagoras 2 citations
- the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson 2 citations
- the Delphic oracle 2 citations
- the Delphic oracle of Apollo Apollo 2 citations
- the divine Scriptures 2 citations
- the doctrine of universal flux Heraclitus 3 citations
E
- An Essay on Crimes and Punishments Cesare Beccaria 1 citation
- Early History of Institutions Henry Maine 2 citations
- Ecclesiastes Solomon 11 citations
- Eclogues Virgil 1 citation
- Edict of the Praetor the Praetor 2 citations
- Edinburgh Review the Whigs 3 citations
- Electra 2 citations
- Electra Sophocles 1 citation
- Electra Euripides 1 citation
- Elegiacs Dionysius the Brazen 2 citations
- Elements Euclid 9 citations
- Empedocles 5 citations
- Employers' Liability Act, 1880 (43 & 44 Vict. c. 42) Parliament of the United Kingdom 2 citations
- Ephesians Paul 7 citations
- Ephorus 3 citations
- Epictetus 4 citations
- Epicurean doctrine Epicurus 2 citations
- Epicurus 12 citations
- Epigrams Callimachus 3 citations
- Epigrams Martial 2 citations
- Epinomis Plato 1 citation
- Epistle of Barnabas Barnabas 4 citations
- Epistle of James St. James 2 citations
- Epistle of Jude Jude 2 citations
- Epistle to Timothy Paul 3 citations
- Epistle to Titus Paul 4 citations
- Epistle to the Colossians Paul 11 citations
- Epistle to the Corinthians Paul 7 citations
- Epistle to the Ephesians Paul 15 citations
- Epistle to the Galatians Paul the Apostle 26 citations
- Epistle to the Hebrews Paul 12 citations
- Epistle to the Philippians Paul 10 citations
- Epistle to the Romans Paul 41 citations
- Epistles Paul 5 citations
- Epistles to Timothy Paul 2 citations
- Epitome Heraclides 4 citations
- Eratosthenes 3 citations
- Ethics Apollodorus 10 citations
- Euclid 397 citations
- Eumenides Aeschylus 1 citation
- Euripides 154 citations
- Euthydemus Plato 3 citations
- Exodus Moses 19 citations
- Ezekiel Ezekiel 11 citations
- elegies Theognis 8 citations
- elegies of Theognis Theognis 2 citations
- the Epistle of Barnabas Barnabas 2 citations
- the Epistles of Paul Paul the Apostle 4 citations
F
- De fato Chrysippus 3 citations
- Fables Aesop 3 citations
- Fasti Ovid 1 citation
- Favorinus 2 citations
- First Book of Samuel unknown (biblical author) 2 citations
- First Epistle of John John 15 citations
- First Epistle of Peter Peter 7 citations
- First Epistle to Timothy Paul 9 citations
- First Epistle to the Corinthians Paul 29 citations
- First Epistle to the Thessalonians Paul the Apostle 7 citations
- First Principles Herbert Spencer 1 citation
- Flavius Josephus 1 citation
- Fleta unknown (anonymous) 3 citations
- Foedera Thomas Rymer 2 citations
- Fourth Philippic Cicero 1 citation
- Fragments of Heraclitus Heraclitus 2 citations
- Francis Bacon 3 citations
- French Civil Code French legislature 2 citations
- The Federalist Alexander Hamilton 13 citations
- fable of the fox Archilochus 2 citations
- fables of Aesop Aesop 2 citations
- fragments Heraclitus 3 citations
G
- Gaius 26 citations
- Galatians Paul 6 citations
- Galen 3 citations
- Gautama 4 citations
- Gautama (Dharmasutra) Gautama 2 citations
- Genesis Moses 54 citations
- Geography Strabo 7 citations
- George Berkeley 1 citation
- George Bernard Shaw 1 citation
- George Crabbe 2 citations
- George Grote 3 citations
- Georgics Vergil 5 citations
- Germania Tacitus 5 citations
- Glanvill's treatise on the laws of England Glanvill 2 citations
- Gobhila 3 citations
- Gorgias Plato 3 citations
- Gospel Jesus Christ 6 citations
- Gospel (Luke) Jesus / the Lord 2 citations
- Gospel (Matthew) Jesus / the Lord 2 citations
- Gospel of John John 40 citations
- Gospel of Luke Luke the Evangelist 17 citations
- Gospel of Mark Mark the Evangelist 4 citations
- Gospel of Matthew Matthew 49 citations
- Government of Dependencies Sir George Cornewall Lewis 3 citations
- Gāyatrī/Sāvitrī mantra 2 citations
- The Great Charter (Magna Carta) English barons and crown (1215) 3 citations
- the Gospel Jesus Christ 25 citations
- the Gospel (sayings of Christ) Jesus Christ 3 citations
- the Gospel sayings of the Lord Jesus Christ 2 citations
- the Gospels 4 citations
H
- Habakkuk Habakkuk 5 citations
- Haggai Haggai 1 citation
- Harpocration 1 citation
- Hebrews unnamed (traditionally Paul) 4 citations
- Helen Euripides 1 citation
- Helen Isocrates 1 citation
- Hellenica Xenophon 2 citations
- Henry Mayers Hyndman 1 citation
- Henry Sumner Maine 11 citations
- Heracles Antisthenes 3 citations
- Heraclitus 5 citations
- Herbert Spencer 5 citations
- Hermippus 2 citations
- Herodotus 15 citations
- Hesiod 63 citations
- Hieronymus 2 citations
- Hippias Plato 1 citation
- Hippocrates 12 citations
- Hippolytus Euripides 3 citations
- Histories Polybius 35 citations
- History (of the Peloponnesian War) Thucydides 25 citations
- History of England Lingard 19 citations
- History of English Law John Reeves 7 citations
- History of Rome Livy 16 citations
- History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) Livy 5 citations
- History of the Criminal Law of England Sir James Fitzjames Stephen 6 citations
- History of the English Law Reeve 3 citations
- History of the United States George Bancroft 3 citations
- History of the Wars Procopius 1 citation
- Homer 278 citations
- Horace 11 citations
- Hosea Hosea 6 citations
- Hugo Grotius 13 citations
- Hymn to Apollo Homer 1 citation
- Hymn to Zeus Terpander 2 citations
- Hyperides 4 citations
- Hārīta 2 citations
- history Timaeus 7 citations
- history (unspecified) Antias 3 citations
- the Histories Herodotus 2 citations
I
- De Inventione Cicero 3 citations
- Iambics Archilochus 2 citations
- Iliad Homer 91 citations
- Immanuel Kant 1 citation
- Indian Penal Code Government of India 7 citations
- Indica Megasthenes 2 citations
- Institutes Justinian 22 citations
- Institutes of Justinian Justinian 30 citations
- Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 12 citations
- Institutes of the Laws of England Sir Edward Coke 7 citations
- Institutio Oratoria Quintilian 7 citations
- Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution The Law Magazine 8 citations
- Ion Euripides 1 citation
- Isaiah Isaiah 34 citations
- Isocrates 29 citations
- iambic verses Dionysius the Iambic 2 citations
J
- James Mackintosh 2 citations
- James Mill 5 citations
- James Thomson 1 citation
- James Tyrrell 2 citations
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau 3 citations
- Jeremiah Jeremiah 16 citations
- Jeremy Bentham 29 citations
- Jewish Antiquities Josephus 1 citation
- Job unnamed (Job) 2 citations
- Joel Joel 4 citations
- John Calvin 1 citation
- John Locke 3 citations
- John Marshall 3 citations
- John Milton 2 citations
- John Morley 2 citations
- John Ramsay McCulloch 1 citation
- John Stuart Mill 17 citations
- John Taylor of Caroline 2 citations
- Jonah the Prophet Jonah 1 citation
- Jonathan Swift 1 citation
- Jones on Bailments William Jones 3 citations
- Joseph Priestley 2 citations
- Joshua 2 citations
- Judicature Act(s) Parliament (United Kingdom) 2 citations
- Judicature Act, 1873 Parliament of the United Kingdom 2 citations
- Judicature Acts Parliament of the United Kingdom 5 citations
- Julian 1 citation
- Julius Caesar 13 citations
- Jurisprudence John Austin 2 citations
- Jurors' oath Athenian lawgiver 3 citations
- The jurors' oath Athenian civic institution 2 citations
K
- Karl Marx 2 citations
- Knights Aristophanes 1 citation
- Kātyāyana 17 citations
- Kātyāyana Smṛti Kātyāyana 2 citations
- Kūrma Purāṇa 7 citations
L
- De Legibus Cicero 5 citations
- De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae Henry de Bracton 11 citations
- Lamentations Jeremiah 2 citations
- Law of Moses Moses 6 citations
- Law of the Twelve Tables the Decemvirs (Roman lawgivers) 7 citations
- Laws Plato 22 citations
- Laws of Draco Draco 5 citations
- Laws of Solon Solon 9 citations
- Lectures on Jurisprudence John Austin 4 citations
- Leges Barbarorum barbarian legal tradition 2 citations
- Leslie Stephen 4 citations
- Letter to Menoeceus Epicurus 2 citations
- Letters Seneca 6 citations
- Letters Pliny the Younger 1 citation
- Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero Cicero 1 citation
- Letters to Atticus Cicero 4 citations
- Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 2 citations
- Leviticus Moses 10 citations
- Lex Aquilia Aquilius (tribune) 7 citations
- Lex Julia et Papia Poppaea Roman legislature (under Augustus) 2 citations
- Little Iliad unnamed epic poet 2 citations
- Littleton's Tenures Littleton 2 citations
- Livy 2 citations
- Lucan 3 citations
- Lucretius 8 citations
- Lycophron 2 citations
- Lycurgus 23 citations
- Lycurgus Aeschylus 1 citation
- Lysander Spooner 4 citations
- Lysias 10 citations
- Lysis Plato 1 citation
- The Law of Intellectual Property Lysander Spooner 1 citation
- The Law of Torts Frederick Pollock 1 citation
- The Laws of Athens Athenian legislators 2 citations
- The Levellers 1 citation
- letter to Atticus Marcus Tullius Cicero 2 citations
- letter to the Senate Lucullus 2 citations
- list of Olympic victors traditional athletic records (unnamed) 2 citations
- the Law Moses 6 citations
- the Law (Decalogue) Moses 4 citations
- the Law of Moses Moses 4 citations
- the Law of Moses (Torah) Moses 2 citations
- the law of nature natural law tradition invoked by French reformers 3 citations
- the laws of Solon Solon 2 citations
M
- Magna Carta King John 18 citations
- Magna Charta Framers of Magna Charta (English statute, 13th century) 6 citations
- Mahābhārata 6 citations
- Malachi Malachi 3 citations
- Manu 64 citations
- Manuel elementaire de droit romain Girard 2 citations
- Manusmṛti Manu 2 citations
- Marcus Aurelius 2 citations
- Mare Clausum John Selden 3 citations
- Maricas Eupolis 2 citations
- Married Women's Property Act 1882 Parliament of the United Kingdom 4 citations
- Medea Euripides 6 citations
- Medea Melanthius 4 citations
- Memoirs Sulla 9 citations
- Memorabilia Favorinus 13 citations
- Menander 8 citations
- Menexenus Philo the dialectician 2 citations
- Meno Plato 3 citations
- Metamorphoses Ovid 4 citations
- Metaphysics Aristotle 1 citation
- Metrodorus 2 citations
- Micah Micah 2 citations
- Mirror of Justices unknown medieval author 6 citations
- Mitakshara unknown (medieval Hindu digest compiler) 2 citations
- Mitra Miśra 1 citation
- Moses Maimonides 1 citation
- Mpu Dusun 1 citation
- The Mirror of Justices Andrew Horne 4 citations
- the Megarian decree Pericles 2 citations
N
- Nahum Nahum 1 citation
- Natural History Pliny 10 citations
- News from Nowhere William Morris 2 citations
- Nicene Creed Fathers of the Council of Nicaea 6 citations
- Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 6 citations
- Noctes Atticae Aulus Gellius 4 citations
- Norman Conquest Freeman 2 citations
- Numbers Moses 4 citations
- Nārada 9 citations
- Nāradasmṛti Nārada 1 citation
- the New Prophecy the Paraclete (Montanist prophets) 3 citations
O
- De Officiis Cicero 8 citations
- Octavia Seneca (attributed) 1 citation
- Odyssey Homer 49 citations
- Oedipus 2 citations
- Oedipus (Tyrannus) Sophocles 1 citation
- Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles 1 citation
- Old Testament Mosaic tradition 3 citations
- Oliver Goldsmith 2 citations
- On Behalf of Euphiletus Isaeus 1 citation
- On Benefits Seneca 1 citation
- On Divination Philochorus 2 citations
- On Fate Marcus Tullius Cicero 2 citations
- On Justice Epiphanes 2 citations
- On Liberty John Stuart Mill 13 citations
- On Nature Metrodorus of Chios 11 citations
- On Old Age Demetrius of Phalerum 4 citations
- On Providence Chrysippus 3 citations
- On Style Posidonius 1 citation
- On the Commonwealth Cicero (attributed to Laelius within the dialogue) 3 citations
- On the Estate of Cleonymus Isaeus 1 citation
- On the Gods Posidonius 3 citations
- On the Happy Life Theophrastus 3 citations
- On the Nature of the Gods Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 citation
- Oracle at Delphi Delphic oracle 2 citations
- Oracle of Ammon 3 citations
- Oracle of Apollo Apollo 2 citations
- Oracle of Apollo at Delphi 3 citations
- Oracle of Delphi Delphic oracle 2 citations
- Oracle of Dodona the oracle at Dodona 2 citations
- Oracular pronouncements of Delphi Oracle of Delphi (Apollo) 2 citations
- Oracular response of the Pythia at Delphi Pythia (Oracle of Apollo at Delphi) 2 citations
- Orations Dion Chrysostom 8 citations
- Orestes Euripides 3 citations
- Origines Cato 2 citations
- Ovid 6 citations
- The oracle of the wooden wall the Delphic Oracle 2 citations
- oracle to Laius Apollo (Delphic oracle) 2 citations
P
- Panathenaicus Isocrates 1 citation
- Panegyricus Isocrates 6 citations
- Parmenides Plato 1 citation
- Parāśara 10 citations
- Pauline Epistles Paul 4 citations
- Pausanias 2 citations
- Persians Aeschylus 2 citations
- Petition of Right English Parliament 7 citations
- Petition of Right (1628) Parliament of England (Charles I, Lords, and Commons) 2 citations
- Phaedo Plato 12 citations
- Phaedra Euripides 2 citations
- Phaedrus Plato 8 citations
- Phaedrus 1 citation
- Phaenomena Aratus 5 citations
- Philip's letter Philip II of Macedon 1 citation
- Philippians Paul 3 citations
- Philippics Cicero 4 citations
- Philoctetes Aeschylus 3 citations
- Philotimus 2 citations
- Phocylides 3 citations
- Phormio Terence 1 citation
- Phylarchus 3 citations
- Pindar 44 citations
- Plato 201 citations
- Pliny the Younger 4 citations
- Pliny, the Elder 3 citations
- Plutarch 54 citations
- Poetics Aristotle 3 citations
- Politics Aristotle 6 citations
- Polybius 18 citations
- Prajāpati 2 citations
- Primitive Culture Edward B. Tylor 2 citations
- Primitive Marriage Mr. McLennan 3 citations
- Principles of Contract Pollock 3 citations
- Principles of Economics Alfred Marshall 1 citation
- Principles of Political Economy John Stuart Mill 4 citations
- Pro Caecina Cicero 2 citations
- Pro Milone Cicero 3 citations
- Progress and Poverty Henry George 1 citation
- Prometheus unnamed tragic poet 2 citations
- Prophecy of Isaiah Isaiah 3 citations
- Protagoras Plato 5 citations
- Proverbial saying Unknown (popular proverb) 2 citations
- Proverbs Solomon 27 citations
- Provisions of Oxford the barons of the Provisions of Oxford 2 citations
- Proxenus' letter Proxenus 2 citations
- Psalms David 81 citations
- Pseudolus Plautus 1 citation
- Punica Silius Italicus 1 citation
- Puruṣasūkta 2 citations
- Pythagoras Democritus 7 citations
- Pythagorean number doctrine the Pythagoreans 2 citations
- Pythagorean teaching Pythagoras 2 citations
- Pythian oracle Delphic Apollo 3 citations
- Pāvamānī hymns the Ṛṣis (Vedic seers) 2 citations
- The Province of Jurisprudence Determined John Austin 2 citations
- poems Archilochus of Paros 2 citations
- poetry of Theognis Theognis 3 citations
- pontifical books unnamed Roman pontiffs 2 citations
- prophecy of Jeremiah Jeremiah 3 citations
- the Psalms David 12 citations
Q
- Quaestiones Romanae Plutarch 1 citation
- Quintilian 6 citations
R
- De Re Rustica Cato 3 citations
- De Republica Cicero 5 citations
- De Republica Anglorum Sir Thomas Smith 3 citations
- De Rerum Natura Lucretius 4 citations
- La Révolution Française et la Féodalité M. Doniol 2 citations
- Republic Plato 21 citations
- Revelation John 2 citations
- Rhetoric Aristotle 2 citations
- Rhetorica ad Herennium Auctor ad Herennium (attribution disputed) 4 citations
- Rigveda 1 citation
- Robert Burns 1 citation
- Robert Owen 1 citation
- Roman History Velleius Paterculus 9 citations
- Roman Law Muirhead 14 citations
- Romans Paul 10 citations
- Rudens Plautus 1 citation
S
- De Spectaculis Tertullian 1 citation
- Sale of Goods Act, 1893 Parliament of the United Kingdom 2 citations
- Salic Law Salian Frankish lawmakers 2 citations
- Sallust 11 citations
- Samaveda 2 citations
- Samuel Johnson 4 citations
- Sappho 3 citations
- Satires Horace 3 citations
- Saturnalia Macrobius 4 citations
- Scripture biblical authors 3 citations
- Second Epistle to Timothy Paul 6 citations
- Second Epistle to the Corinthians Paul 15 citations
- Second Epistle to the Thessalonians Paul 4 citations
- Second Olynthiac Demosthenes 1 citation
- Second Philippic Cicero 1 citation
- Second Treatise of Government John Locke 1 citation
- Select Charters William Stubbs 4 citations
- Seneca the Elder 1 citation
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 5 citations
- Sententiae Hecato 3 citations
- Seven Against Thebes Aeschylus 1 citation
- Sibylline Books 5 citations
- Sibylline Oracles the Sibyl 4 citations
- Sibylline prophecies unknown (Sibylline oracular tradition) 2 citations
- Silli Timon 7 citations
- Simonides 9 citations
- Sir Frederick Pollock 4 citations
- Smṛti 3 citations
- Smṛtis 2 citations
- Socrates Demetrius of Phalerum 7 citations
- Solon 7 citations
- Solon's laws Solon 2 citations
- Solon's poems Solon 2 citations
- Song of Songs Solomon 3 citations
- Sophist Plato 4 citations
- Sophocles 53 citations
- State Trials T. B. Howell (compiler) 2 citations
- Statesman Plato 3 citations
- Statius 2 citations
- Statute of Frauds Parliament of England 8 citations
- Statute of Labourers medieval Parliament of England 3 citations
- Statute of Quia Emptores Parliament of Edward I 2 citations
- Statute of Westminster Edward I 4 citations
- Statute of Westminster the Second unknown (English Crown/Parliament) 2 citations
- Statutes of the Realm compilers of the Statutes of the Realm 5 citations
- Stoic doctrine the Stoics 3 citations
- Stoic doctrine of living according to nature Stoic philosophers 2 citations
- Stoic paradoxes the Stoic school 1 citation
- Stoic philosophy Antipater the Tyrian and Athenodorus Cordylion 2 citations
- Strabo 9 citations
- Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 citation
- Suetonius 9 citations
- Suppliants Aeschylus 3 citations
- Symposium Plato 2 citations
- Symposium Xenophon 2 citations
- Sāṃkhyakārikā Īśvarakṛṣṇa 1 citation
- The Shepherd Hermas 4 citations
- The Shepherd of Hermas Hermas 2 citations
- sayings of Diogenes Diogenes 2 citations
- sayings of Heraclitus Heraclitus of Ephesus 2 citations
- sayings of Socrates Socrates 3 citations
- the Scriptures biblical authors 3 citations
- the Stoics 2 citations
T
- Tenures Littleton 3 citations
- Terence 6 citations
- Tertullian 16 citations
- The Theory of Political Economy Stanley Jevons 1 citation
- The Twelve Tables Roman law (Decemviri) 4 citations
- Theaetetus Plato 7 citations
- Theages Plato 1 citation
- Thebais Statius 1 citation
- Theocritus 1 citation
- Theognis 2 citations
- Theogony Hesiod 5 citations
- Theophrastus 44 citations
- Theopompus 13 citations
- Theseus Anaxandrides 1 citation
- Thomas Hobbes 6 citations
- Thomas Robert Malthus 1 citation
- Thucydides 24 citations
- Thyestes Seneca 4 citations
- Timaeus Plato 11 citations
- Topica Cicero 2 citations
- Trachiniae Sophocles 2 citations
- Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Angliae Ranulf de Glanvill 10 citations
- Trial by Combat George Neilson 3 citations
- Tripod Andron 2 citations
- Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 3 citations
- Twelve Tables Decemviri 40 citations
- Twelve Tables of Rome Roman decemvirs (traditional) 2 citations
- Two Treatises of Government John Locke 1 citation
- a tragedy Diogenes (the Cynic) 3 citations
- teaching of Marcion Marcion 3 citations
- the teaching of Valentinus Valentinus 2 citations
- theological writings Thomas Aquinas 2 citations
U
- Upanishads 2 citations
- Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill 2 citations
- an unnamed poet 2 citations
- unnamed comic poet 2 citations
- unnamed tragic poet 3 citations
- unspecified historical account Poseidonius 7 citations
- unspecified historical work Coelius 8 citations
- unspecified lyric poetry Ibycus, Anacreon, Alcaeus 2 citations
- unspecified poetic work Nicander 4 citations
- unspecified teaching on the highest good Epicurus 2 citations
- unspecified tragedy featuring Neoptolemus Ennius 2 citations
- unspecified work of Seneca Seneca 2 citations
V
- Valerius Maximus 1 citation
- Varia Historia Aelian 4 citations
- Vasiṣṭha 2 citations
- Vatsyayana 7 citations
- Veda 17 citations
- Vedanta 3 citations
- Vedas 2 citations
- Victor Cousin 1 citation
- View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages Henry Hallam 8 citations
- Vinaya Buddha (attributed source of monastic disciplinary rules) 2 citations
- Virgil 11 citations
- Viṣṇu 11 citations
- Viṣṇu Smṛti Viṣṇu (attributed) 1 citation
- Voltaire 2 citations
- Vratiśāsana 2 citations
- Vyāsa 15 citations
- Vālmīki 4 citations
- Vṛhaspatitattva unknown (attributed teacher speaking to Vṛhaspati) 1 citation
- the Veda Vedic tradition 11 citations
- the Vedas unknown/tradition 5 citations
- verses of Empedocles Empedocles 2 citations
W
- Walter Bagehot 2 citations
- William Godwin 2 citations
- William Shakespeare 3 citations
- William Stanley Jevons 3 citations
- Wisdom of Solomon Solomon 7 citations
- Wordsworth Donisthorpe 6 citations
- Works Sydney Smith 3 citations
- Works and Days Hesiod 24 citations
- writings Gregory 3 citations
X
- Xenophon 37 citations
Y
- Yajurveda 2 citations
- Yama 5 citations
- Yama Smṛti Yama 1 citation
- Yājñavalkya 18 citations
- Yājñavalkya Smṛti Yājñavalkya 4 citations
Z
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- 1 Corinthians Paul 22 citations
- 1 John John the Apostle 3 citations
- 1 Samuel 4 citations
- 1 Thessalonians Paul 4 citations
- 1 Timothy Paul 7 citations
- 2 Corinthians Paul 7 citations
- 2 Thessalonians Paul the Apostle 1 citation
- 2 Timothy Paul the Apostle 2 citations
- Ādiśeṣa 1 citation
- Śaunaka 2 citations
- Śruti 5 citations
- Śruti and Smṛti 2 citations
- Ṛc and Sāman the wise sages 2 citations
- Ṛgveda Vedic tradition (anonymous) 2 citations
These are the targets the harvest saw at least twice, or that the library holds. The 10,510 named once are not listed here: each stands at a single passage, and the citing work's own citations page carries that anchor.
the marks
- authority
- relied on as a source of legitimacy
- neutral
- identified or reported
- refuted
- argued against
- extended
- developed or continued
- endorsed
- agreed with
- roman
- the cited text is in the library and opens in the reader
- italic
- named by this text, not held by the library — the corpus's wanted list
- ¶
- the passage in this text that does the citing
- 7
- beside a chapter, the passages anchored there. A single citation can quote more than one passage, which is why a row carries two figures: the citations the harvest recorded, and the passages its chapters add up to.