Euripides
quoted 62 times by 17 works · an author the library holds
also in the atlas: Euripides 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.
6 quoted · 2 reported · 54 carried
22 neutral 6 refuted 4 extended 12 endorsedin the voice of Euripides 5 , Aeschines 3 , Clement 2 , Dio Chrysostom 2 , Alexander 1 , Auge 1 , Basil 1 , Cicero 1 , Clement of Alexandria 1 , Eryximachus 1
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in the voice of Clement
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 6 neutral 2 extended 2 endorsed 15 citations · 36 passages
book 1 3 passages anchored here · book 3 4 passages anchored here · book 4 22 passages anchored here · book 5 4 passages anchored here · book 6 2 passages anchored here · book 7Explicit quotation introduced with 'the tragic poet Euripides writes'.
We ought, when a man is born, to gather together and mourn for him, in view of all the evils he goes to meet;
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in the voice of Alexander
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Orations Dio Chrysostom 3 neutral 2 refuted 2 extended 2 endorsed 11 citations · 10 passages
oration 2 · oration 7 · oration 32 2 passages anchored here · oration 52 · oration 64 · oration 87 3 passages anchored here · oration 88Alexander directly cites this line of Euripides as corroborating evidence.
'Menelaus, conspicuous to behold in great luxury, being of the blood of the sons of Tantalus.
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The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 2 neutral 7 citations
Euripides is explicitly cited as an authority in this paragraph, warranting a citation_quote event.
Plato has established this in his laws, and the same rule prevailed in Greece, as appears from the following passage in Euripides, “our fathers of old did well in banishing from their intercourse and sight any one that had shed another’s blood;
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in the voice of Cicero
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Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 5 endorsed 5 citations
Explicitly cites Euripides' bold claim that the soul is a god, endorsing it.
as Euripides dares to say, is a god.
book 1 ¶ -
Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 1 neutral 2 refuted 2 endorsed 5 citations
Euripides is quoted testifying to a God who sees all things while himself remaining unseen.
the one — "looking up to the ether and to heaven, hold this to be God," says Euripides.
protrepticus ¶ -
Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 4 neutral 4 citations
The passage cites a specific play and playwright as a textual source for its example.
for instance, we think it ridiculous that Alcmaeon in Euripides’ play is compelled by certain threats to murder his mother!
book 3 ¶ -
in the voice of Aeschines
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Against Timarchus Aeschines 3 citations
Represents Euripides being cited as poetic authority for Common Report's power.
and again you will find Euripides declaring that this god is able not only to make known the living, revealing their true characters, but the dead as well, when he says, Common Report shows forth the good man, even though he be in the bowels of the earth;
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Lucullus Cicero, Marcus Tullius 2 neutral 2 citations · 1 passage
The episode is explicitly attributed to 'Hercules in Euripides' and described as an act performed while moved by false impressions.
What of Hercules in Euripides, when, as he pierced the sons of Eurystheus, so he pierced his own with arrows, when he slew his wife, when he tried even to slay his father — was he not moved by false things just as he would be moved by true?
book 1 ¶ -
in the voice of Euripides
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom Henry Sumner Maine 2 neutral 2 citations
Reports a specific doctrinal statement attributed to Euripides.
Euripides distinctly states that in his day the universal physiological doctrine was that the child descended exclusively from the male parent, and Hippocrates (περὶ παιδίου), in energetically combating this opinion, and contending that the child descended from both parents, seems to admit that it was a prevalent heresy.
ch. 8 ¶ -
in the voice of Phidippides
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Clouds Aristophanes 1 endorsed 1 citation · 2 passages
Phidippides cites and sings a passage of Euripides, explicitly endorsing him as the wisest of poets.
And he immediately sang a passage of Euripides, how a brother, O averter of ill!
clouds ¶ -
in the voice of Basil
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Letters Basil of Caesarea 1 citation
Basil quotes Euripides by name to justify his professed friendship with the governor of Neocaesarea.
For we have report as the patron of our friendship, proclaiming your qualities with a loud voice to all men.
letter 63 ¶ -
On Moral Ends Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 citation
Corresponds to the citation of Euripides's verse, explicitly quoted
for you all know this Greek verse — 'Sweet is the memory of toils gone by.
book 2 ¶ -
On the Nature of the Gods Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 citation
A specific passage from Euripides is directly quoted.
' And Euripides, as in many places admirably, so here briefly:
book 2 ¶ -
in the voice of Aeschines
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On the False Embassy Demosthenes 1 refuted 1 citation · 2 passages
The source play and author are identified after the cited iambics.
Well, Aeschines, your iambics shall now serve my turn for an observation about you.
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in the voice of Socrates
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Republic Plato 1 refuted 1 citation
Explicit direct quotation attributed to Euripides followed by Socrates's interpretive commentary
Not for nothing, said I, is tragedy in general esteemed wise, and Euripides beyond other tragedians.
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in the voice of Eryximachus
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Symposium Plato 1 neutral 1 citation
Corresponds to the Euripides citation, where Eryximachus explicitly opens his speech borrowing words from Melanippe.
The beginning of what I have to say is in the words of Euripides’ Melanippe, for not mine the tale that I intend to tell;
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Letters to Lucilius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 neutral 1 citation
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When these last verses had been pronounced in a tragedy of Euripides, the whole people rose up with one impulse to cast out both the actor and the play, until Euripides himself sprang forth into the midst, asking them to wait and to see what end this admirer of gold would make.
letter 115 ¶
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