Delphic inscription 'Know thyself'

1. Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 authority 1 citation

   oration 10

   The Delphic inscription is explicitly named and relied upon as the authoritative basis for the dialogue's central argument.

   "Have you, then, already heard the inscription at Delphi, 'Know thyself'?

2. Apologeticum Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   apologeticum

   The Delphic inscription is invoked as an authoritative external source supporting the call to self-understanding.

   You, man, so great a name — if you understand yourself, learning it even from the inscription of the Pythian priestess — lord of all things that die and rise again:

3. De Anima Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation

   de anima

   The Delphic inscription is cited as the standard Socrates invokes when denying he can know himself.

   But indeed Plato, that he might set no mark of testimony upon the senses, therefore in the Phaedrus too, in the person of Socrates, denies that he can know himself, as the Delphic inscription admonishes, and in the Theaetetus takes from himself knowing and perceiving, and in the Phaedo defers his verdict until after death, a posthumous verdict on truth, namely — and yet, not yet dead, he was philosophizing.

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