Polycrates
quoted 7 times by 3 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Polycrates the figure
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.
4 quoted · 3 reported
7 neutralin the voice of Isocrates 4 , Oroetes 1 , Polycrates 1
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in the voice of Isocrates
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Busiris Isocrates 4 neutral 4 citations · 6 passages
The opening paragraphs constitute the speaker's direct first-person address to Polycrates, framing the entire letter as a speech act.
I have learned of your fairmindedness, Polycrates, and of the reversal in your life, through information from others;
busiris ¶ -
in the voice of Polycrates
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The Histories Herodotus 2 neutral 2 citations · 3 passages
A direct reply attributed to Polycrates within the same exchange.
” Polycrates was pleased with what the fisherman said;
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On Moral Ends Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 citation
The passage stages a question-and-answer exchange ('who denies it?') about Polycrates's suffering, constituting a dialogic speech act
But those evils were overwhelmed by the greatness of virtue.
book 5 ¶
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