Archilochus

1. De recta ratione audiendi Plutarch 1 refuted 1 citation

   de recta ratione audiendi

   Archilochus's matter is explicitly said to give cause for disapproval, marking a critical rather than endorsing stance.

   Thus a man may see cause enough to disapprove the argument of Archilochus, the verse of Parmenides, the poverty of Phocylides, the eternal talk of Euripides, and inequality of style in Sophocles;

2. Demetrius Plutarch 1 extended 1 citation

   chapter 35

   The passage explicitly attributes the image of Fortune bearing water and fire to Archilochus and extends it to describe Demetrius's situation.

   However, even Fortune, who, like the woman in Archilochus, in one deceitful hand bore water, and in the other fire, while by tidings so dreadful and terrifying she drew him away from Sparta, at once inspired him with other hopes of new and great achievements, and on this wise.

3. Galba Plutarch 1 neutral 1 citation

   chapter 27

   Archilochus is explicitly named as the source of the quoted lines, invoked without endorsement or refutation simply to illuminate the disproportion between actual killers and false claimants.

   But we who slew are a thousand, so in this case, many who had no part in the murder smeared their hands and swords with blood and showed them to Otho, as they presented him with written petitions for largess.

4. Pericles Plutarch 1 neutral 1 citation

   chapter 28

   Archilochus' verse is quoted by Pericles and reported neutrally as the substance of his reply.

   On Elpinice’s saying this, Pericles, with a quiet smile, it is said, quoted to her the verse of Archilochus:

5. Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat Plutarch 1 refuted 1 citation

   locus not recovered

   Explicitly judged: 'And Archilochus is not praiseworthy either, who, in the midst of his mourning...contrives to dispel his grief by drinking and merriment,' though 'he gives this plausible reason to justify that practice.'

6. Septem sapientium convivium Plutarch 1 authority 1 citation

   septem sapientium convivium

   Archilochus is named directly as the source of the descriptive phrase used to characterize the letter's difficulty.

   The command of the king of Ethiopia, says Niloxenus, is no more and no less than (to use Archilochus’s phrase) a broken scytale;

7. Theseus Plutarch 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

   chapter 5 2 passages anchored here

   Explicitly called a witness to the warlike character of the Abantes, with verses quoted in support.

   For this is the warfare wherein those men are expert Who lord it over Euboea and are famous with the spear.

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