Polycles

quoted 7 times by 2 works · as a person

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

7 neutral

in the voice of Apollodorus 4 , Euctemon 1 , Pythodorus of Acharnae and Apollodorus of Leuconoë 1 , the narrator 1

quoted by

2 works

in the voice of Apollodorus
Apollodorus Against Polycles Demosthenes 6 neutral 6 citations · 13 passages

apollodorus against polycles 13 passages anchored here

The speaker describes his own challenge to Polycles before witnesses.

When, then, on our homeward voyage we were in Tenedos, and Lucinus, despite the orders given him by Timomachus, was furnishing no money for sustenance to the sailors (he said he had none, but should get some from Mytilenê), and the men had nothing with which to buy provisions, and without food could not have continued rowing, again taking some of our citizens as witnesses I approached the defendan …

apollodorus against polycles ¶
in the voice of the narrator
Characters Theophrastus 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages

characters 2 passages anchored here

The narrator directly addresses Polycles by name and reports his own reasoning for undertaking the work.

For I, Polycles, having studied human nature over a long stretch of time, having lived ninety-nine years, and having besides associated with many and various dispositions and observed with great care both the good and the worthless among men, judged that I ought to write down the things that each of the two sorts pursue in life.

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the marks

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.