Plutarch in the library

7 works in the library quote Plutarch — 28 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

through Plutarch 25 citations · Letters of Cicero 1 citation · Quaestiones Romanae 1 citation · De Communibus Notitiis adversus Stoicos 1 citation

Hugo Grotius 23 citations · Euclid 1 citation · Gaius 1 citation · Henry Sumner Maine 1 citation · Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī 1 citation · Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 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 Plutarch is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 12 authority · 6 neutral · 1 extended · 1 endorsed 20 citations · 31 passages

   book i, chapter i. 3 passages anchored here · ch. 10 2 passages anchored here · ch. 12 3 passages anchored here · ch. 15 2 passages anchored here · ch. 21 2 passages anchored here · ch. 24 · chapter xx.: on punishments. 6 passages anchored here · ch. 26

   and 7 more chapters

   ch. 27 · ch. 29 · ch. 30 · ch. 31 4 passages anchored here · ch. 35 · ch. 40 2 passages anchored here · ch. 41

   Plutarch's specific Life is explicitly named as the source.

   In conformity to which, Plutarch, in the life of Cato the elder, observes, that we are formed by nature to use law and justice towards men only.

2. The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) Hugo Grotius 3 authority 3 citations · 4 passages

   ch. 6 · ch. 20 · letter ii 2 passages anchored here

   Named explicitly ('Iam olim Plutarchus') and quoted in Greek.

   Iam olim Plutarchus πρόφασιν πλεονεξίας fuisse dicit ἡμερω̄σαι τὰ βαρβαριϰὰ, improbam scilicet alieni cupiditatem hoc sibi velum obtendere, quod barbariem mansuefacit.

3. Elements Euclid 1 neutral 1 citation

   book 12

   This specific work and passage of Plutarch is cited by name and section number as the source for the discussion of Democritus.

   Stoicos XXXIX 3) about Democritus above referred to.

4. Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 1 neutral 1 citation

   de manv. (2)

   Plutarch's Quaestiones Romanae is explicitly cited by section for this report.

   ’ Plutarch informs us that the wife asserted her equality by the terms, Ubi tu Caius, ego Caia, Quaest.

5. Dissertations on Early Law and Custom Henry Sumner Maine 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 5

   Plutarch's Life of Pyrrhus is cited by chapter number as the authoritative source for the anecdote used as evidence.

   A well-known story told by Plutarch (‘Pyrrhus,’ 26) of the relations between a brilliant Lacedæmonian officer, Acrotatus, and Chelidonis, the wife of Cleonymus, and of the way in which the old men of Sparta applauded these relations and invoked blessings on the offspring of Chelidonis, does assuredly suggest that, in that old-fashioned and never very delicate society, some institution like that of …

6. Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī 1 neutral 1 citation

   ch. 2

   The work is named by title and its author credited with an explicit ascription, which the passage reports without judging.

   Plutarch (Fluṭarkhus), in his treatise on *Natural Opinions* (*al-Ārāʼ al-Ṭabīʻīyah*), ascribed to him that Plato says that bodies were in the beginning in motion, a motion not ordered, and that the God arranged them in order, since order is better than the absence of order.

7. Letters to Lucilius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 authority 1 citation

   letter 21

   Explicitly named as the letters that preserved Atticus's memory.

   The letters of Cicero do not suffer the name of Atticus to perish.