Virgil
quoted 7 times by 5 works · an author the library holds
also in the atlas: Virgil 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.
7 carried
5 extendedquoted by
5 works-
Letters to Lucilius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 3 extended 3 citations · 4 passages
Corresponds to the citation of Virgil's work on Aetna, required to have a matching quote_event.
What shall I give you not to describe Aetna in your poem, not to touch this set theme handled by every poet?
letter 79 ¶ -
The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 citation · 3 passages
Corresponds to the explicit citation of Virgil across three paragraphs.
And in the same sense Virgil has asserted water to be free and open to all men.
ch. 12 ¶ -
Consolation to Polybius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 citation
Virgil's works are invoked as a literary authority Polybius should return to for consolation and study.
then let Homer and Virgil—men who have deserved as well of the human race as you have deserved both of them and of all men, whom you wished to be known to more than had read them—abide long with you;
consolation to polybius ¶ -
On Benefits Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 extended 1 citation
The quotation 'There is no delay in Turnus' is presented as a recognizable citation embedded in Seneca's own first-person vow of readiness.
3 Wish that you may be able to repay me a benefit when there shall be need, not that there should be need.
book 6 ¶ -
Ad Nationes Tertullian 1 extended 1 citation
A poetic characterization of Report is directly quoted and then developed.
"Report, an evil than which nothing else is swifter"?
book 1 ¶
the marks
- authority
- relied on as a source of legitimacy
- neutral
- identified or reported
- refuted
- argued against
- extended
- developed or continued
- endorsed
- agreed with
- roman
- the cited text is in the library and opens in the reader
- italic
- named by this text, not held by the library — the corpus's wanted list
- ¶
- the passage in this text that does the citing
- 7
- beside a chapter, the passages anchored there. A single citation can quote more than one passage, which is why a row carries two figures: the citations the harvest recorded, and the passages its chapters add up to.