Theophrastus
quoted 15 times by 8 works · an author the library holds
also in the atlas: Theophrastus 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.
3 reported · 12 carried
5 neutral 3 refuted 2 endorsedin the voice of Cicero 2 , Piso 2 , Clement 1 , Theophrastus 1 , the speaker (Cicero) 1
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in the voice of Cicero
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Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 2 neutral 1 refuted 4 citations
Theophrastus's phrase is quoted directly and attributed to him, matching the citation entry.
For this beauty, even on earth, stirred up that philosophy, "ancestral and inherited from our forefathers," as Theophrastus says, kindled by the desire of knowledge.
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in the voice of Piso
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On Moral Ends Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 endorsed 3 citations
Corresponds to the citation of Theophrastus's writings.
Again — does Theophrastus give us only middling pleasure when he treats topics treated before him by Aristotle?
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in the voice of Theophrastus
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 neutral 2 citations
Theophrastus's doctrine is directly cited by name.
And Theophrastus says that perception is the beginning of faith;
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The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 neutral 2 citations
Matches the citation of Theophrastus.
as Theophrastus has observed in his book on laws.
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in the voice of the speaker (Cicero)
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Lucullus Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 citation
Explicitly framed as second-hand reported speech: 'Hicetas... as Theophrastus says, thinks that...'.
Hicetas of Syracuse, as Theophrastus says, thinks that the sky, sun, moon, stars, and in fine all the things above stand still, and that nothing in the world is moved except the earth;
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On the Nature of the Gods Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 refuted 1 citation
The passage explicitly reports Theophrastus's shifting attributions of divine sovereignty.
for now he gives the divine sovereignty to mind, now to the sky, now to the signs and heavenly bodies.
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Meditations Marcus Aurelius 1 endorsed 1 citation
Represents the reported speech / doctrine attribution event naming Theophrastus as speaker of the view.
Theophrastus speaks like a philosopher when, in comparing offences — as one might compare such things on the common view — he says that the faults committed through desire are graver than those committed through anger.
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On Anger Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 refuted 1 citation
Theophrastus is explicitly named as the speaker of a direct quotation that Seneca proceeds to refute.
"It cannot be," says Theophrastus, "that a good man should not grow angry at the wicked.
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