Delphic inscription 'Know thyself'

1. Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 authority 1 citation

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

2. Charmides Plato 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

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   Critias treats the inscription as authoritative confirmation that temperance is self-knowledge.

   For I would almost say that this very thing, self-knowledge, is temperance, and I am at one with him who put up the inscription of those words at Delphi.

3. Lovers Plato 1 authority 1 citation

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   The Delphic inscription is invoked as an authoritative source confirming the conclusion that self-knowledge is temperance and justice.

   So this is the message, it seems, of the Delphic inscription—that one is to practise temperance and justice.

4. Apologeticum Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

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   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:

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