Polybius in the library

8 works in the library quote Polybius — 32 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

through Histories 23 citations · Polybius 9 citations

Hugo Grotius 21 citations · Clement of Alexandria 4 citations · Tertullian 2 citations · Aristotle 1 citation · Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 citation · Dio Chrysostom 1 citation · Gaius 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 Polybius 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 11 authority · 8 neutral · 2 endorsed 21 citations · 26 passages

   book i, chapter i. · ch. 10 4 passages anchored here · ch. 12 2 passages anchored here · ch. 20 2 passages anchored here · ch. 21 2 passages anchored here · ch. 22 · ch. 23 2 passages anchored here · ch. 24

   and 8 more chapters

   chapter xx.: on punishments. · ch. 27 · ch. 31 3 passages anchored here · ch. 35 · ch. 36 · ch. 41 2 passages anchored here · ch. 43 · ch. 47

   Cited across two paragraphs as historical authority.

   Thus after the time of Lycurgus, and more particularly after the institutionof the Ephori, the kings of the Lacedaemonians are said by Polybius, Plutarch, and Cornelius Nepos, to have been Kings more in name than in reality.

2. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 authority · 2 neutral · 1 endorsed 4 citations · 6 passages

   book 1 3 passages anchored here · book 3 · book 6 2 passages anchored here

   Explicitly named: 'And Herodotus agrees with him in his first book', endorsing the Eudemus account.

   And Herodotus agrees with him in his first book.

3. Apologeticum Tertullian 1 neutral · 1 refuted 2 citations · 4 passages

   apologeticum 4 passages anchored here

   Cited tentatively ('I think') as the source of a blood-covenant custom.

   As to the feeding upon blood and dishes of that tragic kind, read — somewhere it is recorded (in Herodotus, I think) — that certain nations made a covenant by drawing blood from their arms and tasting it from one another.

4. Constitution of the Athenians Aristotle 1 neutral 1 citation

   ch. 1

   Herodotus is explicitly named as the source for one version of the Phye episode, reported neutrally alongside an alternative.

   For having first spread a report that Athena was bringing Pisistratus back, and having found a tall and beautiful woman—as Herodotus says, from the deme of the Paeanians, but as some say, a Thracian garland-seller from Collytus, whose name was Phye—he had her imitate the goddess in her adornment and brought her in along with him;

5. On the Commonwealth Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 authority 1 citation

   book 2

   Polybius is explicitly named and endorsed as the authoritative source for dating Numa's reign

   So when he had reigned thirty-nine years in the utmost peace and concord (for let us follow above all our own Polybius, than whom none was more diligent in investigating dates), he departed from life, having confirmed two things most splendid for the long endurance of the commonwealth—religion and clemency.

6. Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 refuted 1 citation · 2 passages

   oration 37 2 passages anchored here

   Herodotus's account is explicitly named and explicitly rejected as untrustworthy in favor of alternative evidence.

   For I do not heed Herodotus, but the tomb and Simonides, who inscribed upon the dead of the Corinthians buried in Salamis:

7. Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 1 neutral 1 citation

   ch. 33

   The criticism of Vitellius is explicitly sourced to Tacitus's Histories.

   Vitellius is carped at by Tacitus for his lavish grants of Latinity (Latium vulgo dilargiri, Hist.

8. Consolation to Polybius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 extended 1 citation · 2 passages

   consolation to polybius 2 passages anchored here

   Seneca refers to Polybius's own translations of Homer and Virgil, urging him to take them up again and praising their quality as models to live up to.

   Come now, take in hand those poems of either author that you have made famous by the great labour of your genius—poems that you have so recast that, although their structure has fallen away, their grace nevertheless remains;