unspecified poetic work
Nicander
cited 5 times by 3 works in the library · not held
The library does not hold this work. Three of its books reach for it anyway — that is what puts it on the corpus's wanted list.
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5 citations · from 3 works-
Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 2 neutral 2 citations · 3 passages
Cited twice for descriptive/naming details.
For even if some of the animals do not have all the senses, like grubs and caterpillars and all that appear maimed straightway from their first birth, as moles and the shrew-mouse, which Nicander calls "blind and dreadful" — yet these are better than these xoana and statues, which are wholly dumb;
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The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) Hugo Grotius 2 citations · 4 passages
Named directly and paraphrased across two passages.
Vergil also says that the air, the sea, and the shore are open to all men.
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Meditations Marcus Aurelius 1 neutral 1 citation
The passage explicitly attributes the phrase 'searches into the things beneath the earth' to 'the poet,' invoking an unnamed poetic source.
Nothing is more wretched than the man who goes round and round over everything, and "searches into the things beneath the earth," as the poet says, and seeks by conjecture into the souls of those about him, while failing to perceive that it is enough to keep close to the guardian spirit within him and to serve it sincerely.
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