Posidonius
quoted 15 times by 4 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Posidonius 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.
1 quoted · 2 reported · 12 carried
1 neutral 4 refuted 1 extended 6 endorsedin the voice of Seneca 3 , Pompey 1 , Posidonius 1
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in the voice of Seneca
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Letters to Lucilius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 3 refuted 1 extended 5 endorsed 10 citations · 23 passages
letter 87 2 passages anchored here · letter 88 · letter 90 16 passages anchored here · letter 92 · letter 95 · letter 113 · letter 121Posidonius's doctrine about philosophy's role in invention is directly reported and quoted before Seneca argues against it.
In this too I dissent from Posidonius, that he judges the smith's tools to have been devised by wise men.
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in the voice of Pompey
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Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 endorsed 3 citations · 1 passage
The whole anecdote is explicitly framed as what Pompey used to relate, a reported narrative including his own words.
When he had seen and saluted him, and addressed him with words of honour, and had said that he took it ill that he could not hear him lecture, the other said:
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On Fate Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 refuted 1 citation · 2 passages
Explicit statement that 'Posidonius... seems to invent' these accounts, with the text reporting 'our author writes' regarding the castaway's foretelling.
Some things, too, Posidonius (saving my respect for the master) seems to invent;
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On the Nature of the Gods Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 citation
Posidonius is named and his artifact cited as supporting evidence.
But if anyone should carry into Scythia or Britain that sphere which our friend Posidonius lately made, whose single revolutions bring about the same in the sun and in the moon and in the five wandering stars as is brought about in the heaven on single days and nights, who in that barbarous land would doubt that that sphere had been perfected by reason?
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