Xenocrates
quoted 4 times by 3 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Xenocrates the figure
Most often reported — someone's speech given in report. 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 · 1 carried
3 neutralin the voice of Xenocrates 2 , Cicero 1 , the speaker (Cicero) 1
quoted by
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in the voice of Cicero
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Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 2 neutral 2 citations
Xenocrates's specific doctrine is reported, matching the citation entry for his theory of the soul as number.
Xenocrates denied that the soul has any shape or, as it were, body, and said it is number, whose power, as had already been Pythagoras's view, is greatest in nature.
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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 reported opinion: 'as Xenocrates held.'
if simple, whether it is fire, or breath, or blood, or, as Xenocrates held, a number without any body — which can scarcely be understood of what kind it is;
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in the voice of Xenocrates
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On the Commonwealth Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 citation
Xenocrates' reply to a question is reported as indirect/reported speech supporting the passage's argument.
Indeed they relate that Xenocrates, among the most distinguished of philosophers, when asked what his disciples gained, answered that they came of their own accord to do what they would be compelled to do by the laws.
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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
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- italic
- named by this text, not held by the library — the corpus's wanted list
- ¶
- the passage in this text that does the citing
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- 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.