Controversies

1. Vitae philosophorum Diogenes Laertius 1 refuted 1 citation · 2 passages

   book 3 2 passages anchored here

   The repeated claim that the Republic derives from Protagoras's Controversies functions as a challenge to Plato's originality, i.e. a refuting stance toward the presumption of originality.

   Favorinus, however, in the second book of his Miscellaneous History declares that nearly the whole of the Republic is to be found in a work of Protagoras entitled Controversies.

2. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 22

   Named directly and its remark is reported as supporting the stated rule.

   Seneca in one of his controversies, treating upon this point, puts the case of a plane-tree set on fire, by which a house was burnt, and he subjoins the following remark, “although the mischief went further than was intended, yet the person doing it was answerable for the whole, as much, as if he had done it by design.

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