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Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    Simonides

    quoted 4 times by 4 works · as a person

    also in the atlas: Simonides 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 · 3 carried

    1 authority 1 refuted 2 extended

    in the voice of Poet 1 , Polemarchus 1 , Simonides 1

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    4 works

    1. in the voice of Poet

    2. Birds Aristophanes 1 extended 1 citation

      birds

      The Poet explicitly measures his own composed verses against Simonides by name.

      I have composed verses in honor of your Nephelococcygia, a host of splendid dithyrambs and parthenia worthy of Simonides himself.
      birds

    4. Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 1 refuted 1 citation

      book 4

      The text names Simonides and references a saying of his that is contrasted with the liberal man's attitude.

      he does not agree with the saying of Simonides.
      book 4

    5. in the voice of Simonides

    6. On the Nature of the Gods Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 authority 1 citation

      book 1

      Direct quotation given in the text ('Because the longer I consider, the more obscure the matter seems to me') attributed to Simonides (p-b2741e).

      I shall take Simonides for my authority, of whom, when the tyrant Hiero asked this very question, he begged one day to deliberate;
      book 1

    7. in the voice of Polemarchus

    8. Republic Plato 1 extended 1 citation · 6 passages

      book 1 6

      Polemarchus explicitly names Simonides as the source of the definition, which is then extended and tested at length.

      Nay, but it is, Socrates, said Polemarchus breaking in, if indeed we are to put any faith in Simonides.
      book 1
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