Xenophon
quoted 20 times by 7 works · an author the library holds
also in the atlas: Xenophon 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 quoted · 1 reported · 16 carried
1 neutral 5 endorsedin the voice of Xenophon 4 , Cyrus 1
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in the voice of Xenophon
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The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 2 endorsed 12 citations
ch. 9 · ch. 12 2 passages anchored here · ch. 16 · ch. 23 · ch. 24 · chapter xx.: on punishments. 2 passages anchored here · ch. 31 2 passages anchored here · ch. 36and 1 more chapter
Xenophon is explicitly cited as an authority in this paragraph, warranting a citation_quote event.
Xenophon says, that every animal knows a certain method of fighting without any other instructor than nature.
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Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 endorsed 2 citations
Matches the citation entry naming Xenophon as the endorsed source of the doctrine praised by Africanus.
And so Africanus always had in his hands the Socratic Xenophon, in whom he chiefly praised this — that he said the same toils are not equally heavy to a general and to a soldier, because the honour itself made the general's toil the lighter.
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in the voice of Xenophon
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 endorsed 2 citations
Xenophon is quoted directly at length as an approved authority on the vice of pleasure.
"O wretched one, what good do you know, or what noble thing do you regard?
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On Moral Ends Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 citation
Corresponds to the citation of Xenophon reporting Persian dietary habits
let there be no less pleasure in that cress on which Xenophon writes the Persians were wont to feed, than at Syracusan tables, which are gravely censured by Plato;
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On the Nature of the Gods Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 citation
The passage explicitly attributes the saying to Socrates 'in Xenophon,' marking both as sources.
For whence did man 'snatch' this, as Socrates says in Xenophon?
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Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 1 endorsed 1 citation
Xenophon is quoted hinting at an invisible, powerful mover of all things, comparable to the unbearable brightness of the sun.
"He who shakes all things and brings them to rest is manifest as some great and powerful one;
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Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 citation
Cites Xenophon as alone sufficient among the ancients for a statesman, the strongest authority claim in the passage.
But Xenophon I, for my part, think alone of the ancients able to suffice a statesman:
oration 88 ¶
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