Rumor
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
rumor · Rumour · Talk
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
On the False Embassy
Public report treated through Aeschines' own cited verse as hard to dismiss and even divinely weighted.
so, of course, as against you, the rumor that many people spread abroad does not wholly die.
If rumor is true, the rumor of the multitude is against you;
Works and Days
Personified rumor or gossip ('Talk'), described as difficult to escape once raised and possessing a quasi-divine quality.
even Talk is in some ways divine.
Apologeticum
Personified rumor described as swift, false, and the sole 'accomplice' accusing Christians.
This is the informer you bring against us — rumour, which, though it once bruited the tale, and through so long a space confirmed it into opinion, has even until now been unable to prove it:
Rumour, the name of the uncertain, has no place where the matter is certain.
Nor does anyone say, for example, "This is said to have happened at Rome," or "Rumour has it that he was allotted a province";