On Nature
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Most often quoted — the words themselves, in quotation. 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 neutralin the voice of the narrator (Cicero) 1
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in the voice of the narrator (Cicero)
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Lucullus Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 citation
The narrator directly quotes the opening line of Metrodorus's book On Nature as authoritative precedent for radical doubt.
Metrodorus of Chios, who admired him most, at the beginning of his book On Nature says:
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 neutral 1 citation
The title and author are named directly, with the epithet 'the Obscure' explained.
And we should find ten thousand things upon ten thousand spoken in riddles by both philosophers and poets, seeing that whole books too show forth the hidden purpose of the writer — such as the book of Heraclitus On Nature, who for this very reason was surnamed "the Obscure.
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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.