Callimachus in the library

6 works in the library quote Callimachus — 11 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

through Callimachus 7 citations · Hymn to Zeus 2 citations · Epigrams 1 citation · Hymn to Apollo 1 citation

Clement of Alexandria 6 citations · Cicero, Marcus Tullius 2 citations · Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 citation · Tertullian 1 citation · Thucydides 1 citation

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Callimachus is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 2 authority · 3 neutral 5 citations · 6 passages

   book 5 5 passages anchored here · book 6

   Named directly by title and author.

   For the poet Euphorion, and the Causes of Callimachus, and the Alexandra of Lycophron, and such-like works, are set as an exercise in exegesis for the boys of the grammarians.

2. Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 2 neutral 2 citations

   book 1 2 passages anchored here

   Explicitly named as Callimachus's epigram on a specific subject.

   There is, moreover, that epigram of Callimachus upon Theombrotus of Ambracia, who, he says, though nothing adverse had befallen him, cast himself from the wall into the sea, after reading a book of Plato.

3. Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 1 authority 1 citation · 3 passages

   protrepticus 3 passages anchored here

   Callimachus recurs three times as a source Clement relies on for factual/mythic claims.

   The Arcadians worship an Artemis called "the Strangled," as Callimachus says in his Causes.

4. Letters to Lucilius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 endorsed 1 citation · 2 passages

   letter 107 2 passages anchored here

   Seneca explicitly translates and presents Cleanthes's verses as his own culminating statement of doctrine, endorsing their content fully.

   And let us so address Jupiter, by whose helm this whole mass is steered, as our Cleanthes addresses him in most eloquent verses, which I am permitted to render into our own tongue after the example of Cicero, a most eloquent man.

5. De Corona Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation

   de corona

   Callimachus is explicitly named as the source of specific mythological crown details, cited neutrally.

   you have Pindar and Callimachus, who records too that Apollo, after the dragon Delphyne was slain, put on the laurel, in which he was a suppliant—for among the ancients suppliants were crowned.

6. History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 1 authority 1 citation · 3 passages

   book 3 3 passages anchored here

   Thucydides explicitly names Homer and the hymn to Apollo and relies on quoted verses as documentary authority for his historical claim about the ancient Delian festival, a rare instance of named literary citation in this analytical hist …

   Homer shows most clearly that such was the case, in the following verses, taken from a hymn to Apollo.