Epicurus
quoted 89 times by 17 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Epicurus 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.
12 quoted · 26 reported · 51 carried
20 neutral 34 refuted 4 extended 20 endorsedin the voice of Seneca 22 , Epicurus 21 , Cicero 8 , the speaker 5 , Lucretius 2 , The commentator 2 , Torquatus 2 , General opinion 1 , Lucretius (narrator) 1 , Marcus Tullius Cicero 1
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in the voice of Epicurus
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On Moral Ends Cicero, Marcus Tullius 9 neutral 13 refuted 3 endorsed 30 citations · 63 passages
book 1 42 passages anchored here · book 2 18 passages anchored here · book 3 · book 5 2 passages anchored hereAttributes a specific stated position directly to Epicurus
For he denies that less pleasure is perceived from the meanest fare — that is, from the most contemptible food and drink — than from the most choice things for feasting.
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in the voice of Seneca
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Letters to Lucilius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 2 neutral 2 refuted 3 extended 16 endorsed 25 citations · 26 passages
letter 2 · letter 8 · letter 9 · letter 12 2 passages anchored here · letter 14 · letter 16 · letter 17 · letter 18and 11 more chapters
Epicurus is quoted directly on being a slave to philosophy in order to gain true freedom.
"Then especially withdraw into yourself, when you are forced to be in a crowd.
letter 25 ¶ -
in the voice of Cicero
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Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 7 refuted 8 citations · 14 passages
Direct citation event corresponding to the citation of Epicurus's doctrine, refuted at length.
Or shall it be permitted to Epicurus — who only put on the person of a philosopher and inscribed this name upon himself — to say (which, indeed, as the matter stands, he yet says with my applause) that there is no time for the wise man, even though he be burnt, racked, cut, but that he can cry out:
book 5 ¶ -
in the voice of Epicurus
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On the Nature of the Gods Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 4 refuted 6 citations · 8 passages
The passage explicitly reports and endorses a maxim attributed directly to Epicurus.
And if this is so, then that maxim of Epicurus has been truly set forth:
book 1 ¶ -
in the voice of Lucretius
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De Rerum Natura Lucretius 3 citations · 40 passages
book 1 15 passages anchored here · book 3 18 passages anchored here · book 5 7 passages anchored hereThe heroic narrative of the Greek philosopher functions as an extended invocation of Epicurean authority, attributing the founding doctrines to his intellectual conquest.
The crossbars at the gates of Nature old.
book 1 ¶ -
in the voice of The commentator
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Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī 2 neutral 1 refuted 3 citations · 4 passages
His madhhab is attributed in the standard formula and the apparatus supplies conflicting reports about his life.
And among them is Epicurus (Abīqūrus) (1), the philosopher of Athens, the contemporary of Democritus, whose doctrine is that the principle of existing things is small bodies (that is, tiny particles which the senses do not perceive because of their smallness);
ch. 2 ¶ -
in the voice of Seneca
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On the Happy Life Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 2 neutral 1 endorsed 3 citations
Represents the quote event corresponding to the citation and endorsement of Epicurus's teaching.
For my own part I am of this opinion—and I shall say it to the displeasure of my own school—that Epicurus's teachings are holy and right and, if you draw nearer, austere;
on the happy life ¶ -
in the voice of Epicurus
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On the Steadfastness of the Wise Man Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 neutral 1 extended 2 citations
Corresponds to the citation of Epicurus and presents his saying as a directly quoted authoritative statement.
"Rarely does fortune cross the wise man's path.
ch. 1 ¶ -
Academica Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 refuted 1 citation · 2 passages
Corresponds to the citation of Epicurus's doctrine treated unfavorably.
For whether you follow Zeno, it is a great task to bring anyone to understand what that true and simple good is which cannot be sundered from the honourable (a good of what kind it is Epicurus altogether denies he can so much as conceive without pleasures that stir the senses);
book 1 ¶ -
in the voice of Epicurus
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Lucullus Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 citation
The passage stages a direct question-and-answer: 'What of you, Epicurus, speak... "I? For us indeed it is just so great."' — a direct quoted speech act.
What of you, Epicurus, speak:
book 1 ¶ -
Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 refuted 1 citation · 2 passages
Epicurus is directly quoted in both passages, each introduced with 'says' or 'uttered'.
But Epicurus, setting the happiness equal to the gods in the not being hungry nor thirsty nor cold, uttered, speaking impiously, "In these things I would fight even with father Zeus" — dogmatizing a blessed victory of dung-eating pigs, and not of rational and philosophic beings.
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The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 refuted 1 citation
Epicurus's doctrine is reported and implicitly refuted.
The opinions of Epicurus afford a sufficient proof of this:
chapter xx.: on punishments. ¶ -
in the voice of Seneca
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On Benefits Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 refuted 1 citation
Seneca directly apostrophizes Epicurus by name in a rebuking direct address
"And so a god does not give benefits, but, untroubled and careless of us, turned away from the world, he does something else, or, what to Epicurus seems the greatest happiness, does nothing, and benefits no more move him than injuries.
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Ad Nationes Tertullian 1 refuted 1 citation · 2 passages
Epicurus's doctrine and a direct maxim are reported and used against him.
But Epicurus, who had said, "What is above us is nothing to us," when he too desired to inspect the heaven, found the sun's orb a foot wide.
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Adversus Valentinianos Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages
Corresponds to the citation entry for Epicurus
For Enthymesis—or now Achamoth, which name from here on is written by this alone as untranslatable—when, with the vice of the inseparable Passion, she was expelled into the regions foreign to light (which is a thing of the Pleroma), into that void and empty of Epicurus, she is pitiable even by reason of place.
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Apologeticum Tertullian 1 refuted 1 citation
Quote event corresponding to the citation of Epicurus's doctrine on pain and death.
So too Epicurus cheapens all torment and pain, pronouncing the slight to be contemptible, and the great to be not lasting.
apologeticum ¶ -
De Carnis Resurrectione Tertullian 1 refuted 1 citation
Reports the Epicurean doctrine as a named philosophical position.
That nothing exists after death is the school of Epicurus.
de carnis resurrectione ¶
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