Timaeus
quoted 13 times by 7 works · held by the library
also in the atlas: Timaeus 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.
13 carried
1 neutral 4 refuted 4 extendedin the voice of Gaius Velleius 1 , Plato 1 , an Egyptian priest 1 , the speaker (Cicero) 1
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in the voice of an Egyptian priest
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 3 extended 5 citations · 10 passages
The narrative of the Egyptian priest is explicitly attributed to Plato and cited as a source supporting barbarian antiquity.
Hence most nobly the Egyptian priest in Plato:
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De Anima Tertullian 2 refuted 3 citations
Tertullian cites the Timaeus for Plato's claim that the senses are irrational and entangled with opinion.
and Plato certainly in the Timaeus, pronouncing sense-perception irrational and entangled with mere opinion.
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in the voice of the speaker (Cicero)
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Lucullus Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 citation
Corresponding citation_quote for the Timaeus citation regarding the earth's motion.
And some think that Plato too says this in the Timaeus, but a little more obscurely.
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in the voice of Gaius Velleius
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On the Nature of the Gods Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 refuted 1 citation · 3 passages
Corresponds to the citation of Plato's Timaeus, quoted and refuted at length by Velleius.
"Hear, now, opinions that are neither idle nor invented — not the god of Plato's Timaeus, the craftsman and builder of the world, nor the Stoics' soothsaying old woman Pronoia, which in Latin we may call Providence, nor yet the world itself endowed with mind and senses, a round, glowing, revolving god, the portents and marvels not of philosophers reasoning but of philosophers dreaming.
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Timaeus Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 extended 1 citation · 50 passages
Required companion quote_event for the citation of Plato's Timaeus, reflecting that the whole discourse is a reported/extended rendering of that source.
Every discourse seems to have a kinship with the things it sets forth.
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Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 citation
Cites Plato's Timaeus for its account of the god's construction of the cosmos.
For when Archimedes bound up in a sphere the motions of the moon, sun, and the five wandering stars, he brought about the same thing as he who, in the Timaeus, built the world — Plato's god — namely, that one revolution should govern motions most unlike in slowness and swiftness.
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Apologeticum Tertullian 1 refuted 1 citation
Quote event corresponding to the citation of Plato on the difficulty of knowing the maker of the universe.
although Plato affirms that the maker of the universe is neither easy to find, and, when found, hard to expound to all.
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