Oracle at Delphi
quoted 2 times by 2 works · not held
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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in the voice of Croesus 1 , Xenophon 1
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in the voice of Xenophon
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Anabasis Xenophon 1 citation
The Delphic oracle is explicitly invoked as the authority for Xenophon's sacrifice to King Zeus.
and he accordingly brought two victims to the altar and proceeded to offer sacrifice to King Zeus, the very god that the oracle at Delphi had prescribed for him;
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in the voice of Croesus
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Cyropaedia Xenophon 1 citation · 13 passages
The citation of Apollo's oracle is an invocation of an external divine authority and therefore requires a matching citation_quote event.
But pray tell me, Croesus, he resumed, what has come of your responses from the oracle at Delphi?
book 7 ¶
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- authority
- relied on as a source of legitimacy
- neutral
- identified or reported
- refuted
- argued against
- extended
- developed or continued
- endorsed
- agreed with
- roman
- the cited text is in the library and opens in the reader
- italic
- named by this text, not held by the library — the corpus's wanted list
- ¶
- the passage in this text that does the citing
- 7
- 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.