Lycurgus in the library

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

Cicero, Marcus Tullius 4 citations · Demosthenes 2 citations · Dio Chrysostom 2 citations · Hyperides 1 citation · Isocrates 1 citation · Plato 1 citation

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1. On the Commonwealth Cicero, Marcus Tullius 2 neutral · 1 extended 3 citations · 6 passages

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   Lycurgus's Spartan constitution is repeatedly cited as a comparative institutional model that Rome parallels or surpasses

   And in doing this he first saw and judged the same thing that Lycurgus a little before had seen at Sparta:

2. Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 authority · 1 endorsed 2 citations

   oration 88 · oration 22

   Lycurgus's orations are explicitly recommended as further reading.

   But Lycurgus too I would counsel you to read, who is lighter than these and shows in his discourses a certain simplicity and nobility of character.

3. Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

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   Lycurgus' laws are twice invoked as the legitimating authority behind Spartan conduct and discipline.

   But why do I commemorate Socrates or Theramenes, men eminent in the renown of virtue and wisdom, when a certain Spartan, whose name has not even been recorded, so despised death that, when he was being led to it, condemned by the ephors, and was of cheerful and glad countenance, and a certain enemy had said to him, "Do you scorn the laws of Lycurgus?

4. Against Aristogeiton I Demosthenes 1 endorsed 1 citation

   against aristogeiton i

   The speaker explicitly approves Lycurgus's divine appeal and extends it by invoking the ancestors.

   Lycurgus did well to call Athena and the Mother of the gods to witness.

5. Against Aristogeiton II Demosthenes 1 endorsed 1 citation

   against aristogeiton ii

   The speaker endorses Lycurgus' prior speech as proof of Aristogeiton's character.

   I think Lycurgus in his speech has satisfactorily proved that the defendant is an unscrupulous man and has an extraordinary faculty for injustice;

6. In Defence of Lycophron Hyperides 1 neutral 1 citation

   in defence of lycophron

   The passage neutrally reports that Lycurgus's statement was recorded among the charges, identifying its source without further characterization in this paragraph.

   Among these was recorded a statement of Lycurgus, who claimed to have been told by the relatives that during the wedding of Charippus to the woman I followed and tried to persuade her to reserve herself and have nothing to do with Charippus.

7. Panathenaicus Isocrates 1 refuted 1 citation · 2 passages

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   Lycurgus' ordinances are invoked as a recognized Spartan legal authority, but the speaker rejects their originality.

   I acknowledge that I am going to speak at length of the institutions of Sparta, not taking the view, however, that Lycurgus invented or conceived any of them, but that he imitated as well as he could the government of our ancestors, establishing among the Spartans a democracy tempered with aristocracy—even such as existed in Athens —, enacting that the offices be filled, not by lot, but by electio …

8. Symposium Plato 1 authority 1 citation

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   Diotima names Lycurgus directly and credits him with laws that saved Sparta and Greece

   Or only look, she said, at the fine children whom Lycurgus left behind him in Lacedaemon to deliver his country and—I may almost say—the whole of Greece;