Socrates
Demetrius of Phalerum
cited 7 times by 7 works in the library · not held
also in the atlas: Socrates the figure
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Aristides Plutarch 1 neutral 1 citation · 3 passages
Demetrius's work is repeatedly invoked and its claims reported and then contested by later sources.
But in contradiction of this story which so many writers give, Demetrius of Phalerum, in his Socrates, says he knows of an estate in Phalerum which belonged to Aristides—the one in which he lies buried, and regards as proofs of his opulent circumstances, first, his office of Archon Eponymous, which only he could hold who obtained it by lot from among the families carrying the highest property asse …
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Conjugalia Praecepta Plutarch 1 citation
Socrates is named directly as the source of the mirror advice, which the author explicitly extends to a wife.
Socrates was wont to give this advice to young men that accustomed themselves to their mirrors:
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Consolatio ad Apollonium Plutarch 1 citation · 3 passages
Socrates is explicitly named three times as the source of distinct arguments and sayings relied upon as central authorities in the letter's case against fearing death.
Socrates said that death was like either to a very deep sleep, or to a journey taken a great way and for a long time, or else to the utter extinction of soul and body;
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De recta ratione audiendi Plutarch 1 citation
Socrates is invoked, alongside Plato and Hyperides, as an authoritative model of proper, restrained praise.
(as if those used by Plato, Socrates, and Hyperides, Well!
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De tuenda sanitate praecepta Plutarch 1 endorsed 1 citation · 2 passages
Socrates is directly cited twice as an authority, once at length and approvingly on moderate appetite, and once on exercise through speech.
First, Socrates advises us to beware of such meats as persuade a man to eat them though he be not hungry, and of those drinks that would prevail with a man to drink them when he is not thirsty.
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Quaestiones Romanae Plutarch 1 neutral 1 citation
Socrates is named directly as the source of a reported comparative custom, without argument for or against it.
In Argos they wear white in mourning, as Socrates saith, vestments rinsed in water.
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Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur Plutarch 1 citation · 2 passages
Socrates is cited twice as an authoritative exemplar: for his transformative rebuke of Alcibiades, and for his practice of professing his own ignorance to soften his correction of the young.
Thus Socrates humbled Alcibiades, forced him into unfeigned tears, and turned his heart, when he argued the case with him.
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