Athenian ancestral precedent
quoted 2 times by 2 works · not held
Most often carried — quoted as a source. 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 carried
in the voice of Demosthenes 1
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in the voice of Demosthenes
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Fourth Philippic Demosthenes 1 citation · 3 passages
The ancestral precedent citation requires a corresponding citation quote event.
For if you have the guarantee of some god, since no mere mortal could be a satisfactory surety for such an event, that if you remain inactive and abandon everything, Philip will not in the end march against yourselves, by Zeus and all the other gods, it would be disgraceful and unworthy of you and of the resources of your city and the record of your ancestors to abandon all the other Greeks to ens …
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On the Crown Demosthenes 1 citation · 5 passages
The ancestral precedents are cited as recognized civic authority.
The Athenians of that day did not search for a statesman or a commander who should help them to a servile security:
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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
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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.