Athenian ancestors
quoted 2 times by 2 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Athenian ancestors the group
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.
2 reported
1 neutral 1 endorsedin the voice of A speaker praising Athenian ancestors 1 , Themistocles 1
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in the voice of A speaker praising Athenian ancestors
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For the Liberty of the Rhodians Demosthenes 1 endorsed 1 citation
The passage explicitly describes the audience hearing a speaker praise ancestors.
My own view is that you ought to grapple with these problems vigorously and act as becomes Athenians, remembering how gladly you hear a speaker praising your ancestors, describing their exploits and enumerating their trophies.
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in the voice of Themistocles
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Antidosis Isocrates 1 neutral 1 citation
The passage reports a decisive counsel attributed to Themistocles.
After him, Themistocles, placed at the head of our forces in the Persian War, counselled our ancestors to abandon the city (and who could have persuaded them to do this but a man of surpassing eloquence?
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- authority
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- extended
- developed or continued
- endorsed
- agreed with
- roman
- the cited text is in the library and opens in the reader
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- named by this text, not held by the library — the corpus's wanted list
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- the passage in this text that does the citing
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- 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.