On Nature

1. Vitae philosophorum Diogenes Laertius 4 authority · 3 neutral 7 citations · 16 passages

   book 7 · book 8 9 passages anchored here · book 9 3 passages anchored here · book 10 3 passages anchored here

   Boëthus's On Nature is cited as source for a third, differing view identifying God's substance with the sphere of fixed stars.

   Again, Antipater in the seventh book of his work On the Cosmos says that the substance of God is akin to air, while Boëthus in his work On Nature speaks of the sphere of the fixed stars as the substance of God.

2. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 2 authority · 1 neutral 3 citations · 4 passages

   book 5 4 passages anchored here

   Named directly by title and author as an example of an obscure book.

   And we should find ten thousand things upon ten thousand spoken in riddles by both philosophers and poets, seeing that whole books too show forth the hidden purpose of the writer — such as the book of Heraclitus On Nature, who for this very reason was surnamed "the Obscure.

3. Lucullus Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 authority 1 citation

   book 1

   The work is named explicitly (On Nature) and quoted/paraphrased as an authority for skepticism.

   Metrodorus of Chios, who admired him most, at the beginning of his book On Nature says:

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