unspecified historical account
Poseidonius
cited 7 times by 3 works in the library · not held
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Comparison of Pelopidas and Marcellus Plutarch 4 endorsed 4 citations · 1 passage
The author explicitly aligns his own belief with Livy's account.
However, I believe, with Livy, Caesar, and Nepos, and, among Greek writers, with King Juba, that sundry defeats and routs were inflicted by Marcellus upon the troops of Hannibal, although these had no great influence upon the war;
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Aemilius Paulus Plutarch 1 neutral 2 citations · 1 passage
Poseidonius is invoked twice by name as the source underpinning specific factual claims about the battle.
while of the Romans there fell, according to Poseidonius, a hundred, according to Nasica, eighty.
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Theseus Plutarch 1 extended 1 citation · 2 passages
Introduced as giving a 'rather peculiar and ambitious account... beginning a great way back,' presenting an elaborated version of the Daedalus/Deucalion episode.
Cleidemus, however, gives a rather peculiar and ambitious account of these matters, beginning a great way back.
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