Scipio
quoted 10 times by 2 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Scipio 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.
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8 neutral 2 endorsedin the voice of Scipio 7 , Laelius 2 , Manilius 1
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On the Commonwealth Cicero, Marcus Tullius 8 neutral 1 endorsed 9 citations · 17 passages
Scipio's reply is presented as direct first-person speech expressing a substantive philosophical position.
And so, though Cyrus that Persian was a most just and most wise king, yet the affair of the people—for that, as I said before, is the commonwealth—does not seem to me to have been most desirable, when it was ruled by the nod and at the will of one man;
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The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 endorsed 1 citation
Scipio's statement to Masinissa is reported as an assertion of Roman rights of conquest.
Upon this principle of the law of nations Scipio treated with Masinissa, stating that as it was under the auspices of the Roman people, that Syphax was conquered and taken prisoner, himself, his wife, his kingdom, his territory, his towns, and subjects inhabiting those towns, in short, every thing belonging to him became a lawful prize to the Roman people.
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