Heraclitus
cited 5 times by 5 works in the library · not held
also in the atlas: Heraclitus the figure
The library holds nothing under this name. Five of its books reach for it anyway — that is what puts it on the corpus's wanted list.
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5 citations · from 5 works-
Consolatio ad Apollonium Plutarch 1 citation
Heraclitus is explicitly named ('as Heraclitus saith') as the source of a doctrine invoked as authoritative for the letter's argument.
for it brings on the vicissitudes of night and day, life and death, sleeping and waking.
consolatio ad apollonium ¶ -
De fortuna Plutarch 1 citation
Heraclitus is named explicitly as the source of the sun analogy, invoked to support the argument for reason's necessity.
And as, were there not a sun, we might, for all the other stars, pass our days in darkness (as Heraclitus says);
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De recta ratione audiendi Plutarch 1 citation · 2 passages
Heraclitus's sayings are invoked twice as authoritative support for surrounding arguments, without being challenged or extended.
For perhaps, as Heraclitus says, it is an ill thing to conceal even a man’s ignorance;
de recta ratione audiendi ¶ -
De Superstitione Plutarch 1 citation
Heraclitus is named explicitly as the source of the quoted saying used to close the paragraph's argument.
but they that are asleep are retired each to his own private world.
de superstitione ¶ -
De tuenda sanitate praecepta Plutarch 1 endorsed 1 citation
Heraclitus's anecdote is presented as a positive illustration of discreet self-management, consistent with the surrounding argument's endorsement.
Heraclitus, when he was in a dropsy, desired his physician to bring a drought upon his body, for it had a glut of rain.
de tuenda sanitate praecepta ¶
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