Proverbial saying
Unknown (popular proverb)
cited 2 times by 2 works in the library · not held
The library does not hold this work. Two of its books reach for it anyway — that is what puts it on the corpus's wanted list.
1 neutral
cited by
2 citations · from 2 works-
Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 1 citation
The passage explicitly cites a proverb as support for the claim that one should be reluctant to share misfortune with friends.
whence the proverb My own misfortune is enough).
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Politics Aristotle 1 neutral 1 citation
The text explicitly introduces this as 'the proverb says'.
and indeed there might be more advanced scientific study of such matters, for instance a science of cookery and the other such kinds of domestic service—for different servants have different functions, some more honorable and some more menial, and as the proverb says, Slave before slave and master before master.
book 1 ¶
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the marks
- authority
- relied on as a source of legitimacy
- neutral
- identified or reported
- refuted
- argued against
- extended
- developed or continued
- endorsed
- agreed with
- roman
- the cited text is in the library and opens in the reader
- italic
- named by this text, not held by the library — the corpus's wanted list
- ¶
- the passage in this text that does the citing
- 7
- beside a chapter, the passages anchored there. A single citation can quote more than one passage, which is why a row carries two figures: the citations the harvest recorded, and the passages its chapters add up to.
Every row here is derived from the harvest, not curated: the citation ledger holds the whole of it, and the atlas states the method.