Neoptolemus
quoted 8 times by 5 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Neoptolemus the figure
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 quoted · 5 reported · 1 carried
7 neutral 1 refutedin the voice of Messenger 2 , Cicero 1 , Neoptolemus 1 , Orestes 1 , Peleus 1 , Polyxena 1
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in the voice of Messenger
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Andromache Euripides 4 neutral 4 citations · 22 passages
The Messenger reports Neoptolemus's own words explaining he has come to make atonement to Phoebus, which the crowd suspects as a lie.
I wish to make atonement to Phoebus for my past transgression;
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Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 1 neutral 1 citation
The passage reports Neoptolemus's reasoning for abandoning his lie.
It is true that his motive for changing was pleasure, though a noble pleasure, since it was pleasant for him to speak the truth, and he had only told a lie at the instigation of Odysseus.
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in the voice of Cicero
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Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 citation
Cicero reports Neoptolemus's saying as found in Ennius, functioning as a citation quote framing the opening argument.
Neoptolemus, indeed, in Ennius says that he must needs philosophize, but only a little, for he had no liking for it altogether.
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in the voice of Neoptolemus
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On the Peace Demosthenes 1 refuted 1 citation
Demosthenes reports Neoptolemus' stated rationale while using later events to discredit it.
Yet I suppose that by this time you have all observed that after visiting the enemy, in order, as he alleged, to collect sums owing to him there which he might spend on public services here, and after making copious use of the argument that it was too bad to arraign men who were transferring wealth from Macedonia to Athens, he secured a safe conduct owing to the peace, converted into cash all the …
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in the voice of Polyxena
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Hecuba Euripides 1 neutral 1 citation
Polyxena's last words baring her breast to the sword are reported by Talthybius as her direct speech in the moment before death.
And she, hearing her master’s words, took her robe and tore it open from the shoulder to the waist, displaying a breast and bosom fair as a statue’s;
hecuba ¶
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