Aesop
quoted 2 times by 2 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Aesop the figure
Most often reported — someone's speech given in report. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
1 reported · 1 carried
1 extended 1 endorsedquoted by
2 works-
Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 endorsed 1 citation
Aesop's saying is reported as citation.
" Whence too Aesop said, not amiss, that swine squeal loudest when they are dragged off, knowing in themselves that they are good for nothing else but sacrifice.
book 7 ¶ -
Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 extended 1 citation
The passage explicitly states that Aesop composed this tale, framing the fable as his speech-act of admonishment.
for in truth Aesop tried in this way to admonish men and to show them wherein they erred, that they might most bear with him, taking pleasure in the laughable and in the fables—just as children attend to and delight in the tales their nurses tell.
oration 72 ¶
the marks
- authority
- relied on as a source of legitimacy
- neutral
- identified or reported
- refuted
- argued against
- extended
- developed or continued
- endorsed
- agreed with
- roman
- the cited text is in the library and opens in the reader
- italic
- named by this text, not held by the library — the corpus's wanted list
- ¶
- the passage in this text that does the citing
- 7
- beside a chapter, the passages anchored there. A single citation can quote more than one passage, which is why a row carries two figures: the citations the harvest recorded, and the passages its chapters add up to.