Solon
cited 7 times by 7 works in the library · not held
also in the atlas: Solon the figure
The library holds nothing under this name. Seven of its books reach for it anyway — that is what puts it on the corpus's wanted list.
1 refuted 2 endorsed
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7 citations · from 7 works-
Antony Plutarch 1 refuted 1 citation
Antony's genealogical boast explicitly invokes Solon's laws on legitimate conception only to claim his mythic ancestor Heracles disregarded them.
In this way, at any rate, he said, his own progenitor was begotten by Heracles, who did not confine his succession to a single womb, nor stand in awe of laws like Solon’s for the regulation of conception, but gave free course to nature, and left behind him the beginnings and foundations of many families.
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Conjugalia Praecepta Plutarch 1 citation
Solon is named directly as the source of the quince-eating precept, invoked as an authoritative lawgiver.
Solon advised that the bride should eat a quince before she entered the nuptial sheets;
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De capienda ex inimicis utilitate Plutarch 1 citation
Solon's saying is cited directly and described as one that ought always to be kept 'in readiness,' marking it as an authoritative maxim.
But we will not give up our virtue in exchange for their wealth.
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Quaestiones Romanae Plutarch 1 citation
Solon is named directly as the source of the cited maxim used to explain the gift prohibition.
What if the reason be as Solon writes it,—describing gifts to be peculiar to dying persons, unless a man being entangled by necessity or wheedled by a woman be enslaved to force which constrains him, or to pleasure which persuades him,—that thus the gifts of husbands and wives became suspected?
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Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur Plutarch 1 citation
Solon is cited as the exemplar of timely reproof, having bidden the prosperous Croesus to look to the end of his fortune before counting himself happy.
Thus dealt Solon with Croesus, puffed up and debauched with the uncertain greatness of his fortune, when he bade him look to the end.
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Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus Plutarch 1 endorsed 1 citation
Solon's verses are directly quoted and presented as the fitting sentiment of those who have achieved genuine indifference to wealth.
With what satisfaction and complacency many persons advanced to such a height of virtue compare themselves with others, and break out in these verses of Solon!
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Septem sapientium convivium Plutarch 1 endorsed 1 citation
Mnesiphilus explicitly names Solon as the source of the opinion he then expounds and endorses at length.
I know this to be the opinion of Solon, that in every art and faculty, divine and human, the work which is done is more desired than the instrument wherewith it is done, and the end than the means conducing to that end;
septem sapientium convivium ¶
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