Commentaries

1. Vitae philosophorum Diogenes Laertius 2 neutral 2 citations

   book 1 · book 2

   Cited alongside Sotion and Heraclides distinguishing two figures named Periander.

   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.

2. Aratus Plutarch 2 neutral 2 citations · 4 passages

   chapter 3 · chapter 32 · chapter 33 · chapter 38

   Aratus's Commentaries are cited as a textual source used by others to judge his oratory, a judgment Plutarch qualifies rather than straightforwardly endorses or refutes.

   and yet he is said to have been a more ornate speaker than some think who judge from the Commentaries which he left;

3. Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England A. V. Dicey 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

   ch. 51 2 passages anchored here

   Relied on as a standard legal commentary supporting statements about property and libel law.

   “It was this equitable principle of the wife’s separate estate which formed the model of the legal separate estate created by the Married Women’s Property Acts, 1870 and 1882.

4. Lectures on the Early History of Institutions Henry Sumner Maine 1 refuted 1 citation

   lecture xii.: sovereignty.

   The Commentaries is explicitly cited as a work whose ordering and propositions Bentham and Austin sought to refute.

   The desire to expose the fallacies of this portion of the Commentaries furnished Bentham with his principal motive for writing the Fragment on Government, and Austin with his chief inducement to determine the Province of Jurisprudence, and the latter seems to me to have thought that the propositions he disputed would be most effectually disposed of, if they were contradicted in the order given them by their author.

5. Brutus Plutarch 1 authority 1 citation

   chapter 27

   Plutarch twice cites Octavius Caesar's own Commentaries as the authoritative source for specific biographical details: his age at the consulship and the vision that saved his life before Philippi.

   So he sent and invited Antony to become his friend, and then, stationing his forces about the city, secured the consulship, although he was still a mere youth, being in his twentieth year, as he himself has stated in his Commentaries.

6. Caesar Plutarch 1 neutral 1 citation

   chapter 22

   The passage explicitly invokes Caesar's own written Commentaries as an authoritative account of the German campaign, presenting his version neutrally.

   Concerning the battle which was fought with them Caesar says in his Commentaries that the Barbarians, while treating with him under a truce, attacked on their march and therefore routed his five thousand cavalry with their eight hundred, since his men were taken off their guard;

7. Marcellus Plutarch 1 neutral 1 citation

   chapter 8

   Numa's commentaries are reported as an alternative classification of opima spoils, presented neutrally alongside the more general account.

   And yet they say that Numa Pompilius, in his commentaries, makes mention of three kinds of opima, prescribing that when the first kind are taken, they shall be consecrated to Jupiter Feretrius, the second to Mars, and the third to Quirinus;

8. Pyrrhus Plutarch 1 authority 1 citation

   chapter 21

   The king's own written commentaries are named explicitly as the ultimate source for a casualty figure.

   After a short flight the Romans reached their camp, with a loss of six thousand men, according to Hieronymus, who also says that on the side of Pyrrhus, according to the king’s own commentaries, thirty-five hundred and five were killed.

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