unspecified tragedy featuring Neoptolemus
Ennius
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On the Commonwealth Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 endorsed 1 citation
Ennius's work featuring Neoptolemus is explicitly named and preferred over Pacuvius's Zethus.
he was more pleased by the Neoptolemus of Ennius, who says he 'wishes to philosophize, but in few things;
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Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 citation
Ennius is named directly as the author in whom Neoptolemus's saying appears, cited to frame Cicero's own argument.
Neoptolemus, indeed, in Ennius says that he must needs philosophize, but only a little, for he had no liking for it altogether.
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