the poets
quoted 11 times by 6 works · as a person
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.
2 quoted · 4 reported · 5 carried
6 neutral 2 refutedin the voice of Varuṇa 1 , al-Māwardī 1 , an unnamed accuser 1 , the Maruts (bright heavenly ones) 1 , the poet 1 , the poets 1
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in the voice of the Maruts (bright heavenly ones)
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Rigveda Aufrecht (ed.) 4 neutral 5 citations
The Maruts are reported as directly instructing the poet to behold and praise them, a reported speech act structuring the hymn's occasion.
Those heroes who come with the bright heavenly [lights], rejoicing, blameless young men — they said to me:
maṇḍala 5 ¶ -
On the Nature of the Gods Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 refuted 2 citations
The passage explicitly reports what the poets depicted regarding the gods before condemning the harm done.
For these are scarcely more absurd than the things which, poured out in the words of the poets, have done harm by their very charm — poets who have brought in gods inflamed with anger and raging with lust, and have made us behold their wars, battles, combats, and wounds;
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in the voice of al-Māwardī
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Adab al-wazīr al-Māwardī 1 citation · 2 passages
Every cited authority is also an act of citation in the text: Introduced as al-shāʻir with no name and then quoted.
but as for the man of passion — his foot bears him off to wherever the heart inclines
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Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 1 neutral 1 citation
A saying is quoted and attributed to 'the poet' before being reinterpreted as a sign of imperfection.
But change in all things is sweet, as the poet says, owing to some badness in us;
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Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 citation
An unnamed poetic authority is cited in support of a claim about the limits of skill.
for, as the poet says, the god did not grant even this to the sons of Asclepius.
oration 1 ¶ -
in the voice of the poets
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Consolation to Marcia Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 refuted 1 citation
Corresponds to the citation of 'the poets' as the source of the underworld fables, explicitly rejected in the same paragraph.
the poets have made sport of these things and harried us with empty terrors.
consolation to marcia ¶
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