Bion
quoted 4 times by 4 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Bion the figure
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.
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1 refuted 3 endorsedin the voice of Seneca 1
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4 works-
Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 endorsed 1 citation
Corresponds to the citation of Bion's witticism.
on which is that witty saying of Bion, that the most foolish king tore his hair in mourning just as though baldness lightened grief.
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 endorsed 1 citation
Bion's rhetorical remark is directly quoted.
" "And what is there to wonder at," says Bion, "if the mouse gnawed through the bag, finding nothing to eat?
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Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 refuted 1 citation
Corresponds to the citation of Bion's doctrine, explicitly attributed and then criticized.
Bion holds it to be impossible to please the multitude, save by becoming a cake or a Thasian wine—foolishly, as it seems to me.
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in the voice of Seneca
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On Tranquillity of Mind Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 endorsed 1 citation
Corresponds to the citation of Bion, explicitly introduced as a neat remark that Seneca uses to support his own point.
Bion neatly remarked that it is no less painful for the bald to have their hair plucked than for the long-haired.
on tranquillity of mind ¶
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