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    Seneca, Lucius Annaeus · the atlas

    The library of Seneca, Lucius Annaeus

    Across 13 of Seneca, Lucius Annaeus’s 24 works in the library, the harvest finds 362 named sources — 443 citations in all. The library holds 30 of them; the rest are the corpus’s wanted list. In the other direction, 8 works in the library quote Seneca, Lucius Annaeus back — 14 citations.

    most drawn on Plato · Aristotle · Seneca, Lucius Annaeus · Homer · Virgil · Ovid · Sallust · Theophrastus · De Rerum Natura · Iliad

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    137 authority 91 neutral 82 refuted 48 extended 85 endorsed Of the 443 citations Seneca, Lucius Annaeus makes, 82 argue against the text cited.

    the sources most drawn on

    24 of 362

    1. Plato 8 authority 2 neutral 2 extended 12 citations

      Letters to Lucilius
      letter 24 · letter 44 · letter 58 · letter 65
      4
      On Anger
      book 1 · book 2
      3
      On the Happy Life
      2 citations
      Consolation to Marcia
      1 citation
      On Tranquillity of Mind
      1 citation
      On Benefits
      book 4
      1
      Now I return to what I promised you — how Plato divides whatever exists into six ways.
      Letters to Lucilius · letter 58 · central doctrine cited, explained, and elaborated

    2. Aristotle 1 authority 3 neutral 4 refuted 1 extended 9 citations

      On Anger
      book 1 · book 3
      4
      Letters to Lucilius
      letter 58 · letter 65
      2
      On the Shortness of Life
      1 citation
      On the Happy Life
      1 citation
      On Tranquillity of Mind
      1 citation
      This crowd of causes set down by Aristotle and Plato comprehends either too many or too few.
      Letters to Lucilius · letter 65 · presents Aristotle's doctrine as the basis for Seneca's own elaboration

    3. Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 5 extended 5 citations

      Letters to Lucilius
      letter 75 · letter 76
      2
      On Providence
      1 citation
      Consolation to Polybius
      1 citation
      On Anger
      book 3
      1
      Why the honourable is the one good I shall now explain, since you judge that I dealt with the matter too briefly in my earlier letter, and think that I praised the thesis to you rather than proved it;
      Letters to Lucilius · letter 76 · cites his own prior letter as the source of a thesis he now develops at length

    4. Homer 4 authority 4 neutral 1 extended 9 citations

      Letters to Lucilius
      letter 40 · letter 63 · letter 88 · letter 90 · letter 108 · letter 123
      7
      Consolation to Polybius
      1 citation
      On Benefits
      book 1
      1
      The grammarian Apion, who went about all Greece in the days of Gaius Caesar and was adopted into the name of Homer by all the cities, used to say that Homer, when he had finished both his works, the Iliad and the Odyssey, added a beginning to his poem, in which he embraced the whole Trojan war.
      Letters to Lucilius · letter 88 · cites Homer's poetry as contested ground for philosophical claims, which Seneca treats skeptically

    5. Virgil 4 authority 3 extended 7 citations

      Letters to Lucilius
      letter 28 · letter 79 · letter 95 · letter 102
      5
      Consolation to Polybius
      1 citation
      On Benefits
      book 6
      1
      While doing something else, our Virgil has described a brave man;
      Letters to Lucilius · letter 95 · cited poetic work whose imagery is extended to a new application

    6. Ovid 1 authority 2 neutral 3 citations

      Letters to Lucilius
      letter 79 · letter 110
      2
      On Benefits
      book 4
      1
      Whether Ovid had already treated the subject was no hindrance to Virgil's doing it.
      Letters to Lucilius · letter 79 · cited prior poetic treatment within a discussion of literary tradition

    7. Sallust 1 authority 1 extended 1 endorsed 3 citations

      Letters to Lucilius
      letter 60 · letter 114
      2
      On Benefits
      book 4
      1
      What in Sallust were rare, in this man are frequent and almost continuous, and not without cause;
      Letters to Lucilius · letter 114 · citation of Sallust as the origin of a style later imitated and extended by a follower

    8. Theophrastus 1 authority 2 refuted 3 citations

      On Anger
      book 1
      2
      Letters to Lucilius
      letter 3
      1
      When you say this, Theophrastus, you seek to bring odium upon the braver precepts, and, leaving the judge, you appeal to the crowd.
      On Anger · book 1 · citation of Theophrastus's claim, extensively refuted

    9. De Rerum Natura Lucretius 1 refuted 1 endorsed 2 citations

      On Tranquillity of Mind
      1 citation
      Letters to Lucilius
      letter 110
      1
      'Thus does each man forever flee himself.
      on tranquillity of mind · cited as poetic authority whose insight Seneca affirms and extends

    10. Iliad Homer 2 neutral 2 citations

      On Anger
      book 1
      1
      Letters to Lucilius
      letter 104
      1
      they will utter something you might think the mark of a great spirit, as did Gaius Caesar, who, angry at the heavens because a thunderstorm was drowning out the pantomimes—whom he imitated more zealously than he watched—and because his revelry was frightened by lightnings (very ill-aimed ones, at that), called Jupiter to battle, and that to the death, shouting out that Homeric line:
      On Anger · book 1 · reports Caesar's quotation of a Homeric line as part of his challenge to Jupiter

    11. letter to Atticus Marcus Cicero 2 neutral 2 citations

      On the Shortness of Life
      1 citation
      Letters to Lucilius
      letter 118
      1
      And so I will give in advance, and will not do what Cicero, that most eloquent man, bids Atticus do, that even if he has no matter to write of, he should write whatever comes to his lips.
      Letters to Lucilius · letter 118 · cited literary precedent Seneca declines to imitate

    12. sayings of Socrates Socrates 1 authority 1 endorsed 2 citations

      On Benefits
      book 7
      1
      Letters to Lucilius
      letter 71
      1
      I shall not bring forward to you Socrates, Chrysippus, Zeno and the rest, great men indeed, indeed the greater because in the praise of the ancients envy does not stand in the way.
      On Benefits · book 7 · cited as a positive authoritative example of proper conduct

    13. Aeneid Virgil 9 authority 2 neutral 2 extended 1 endorsed 14 citations

      Letters to Lucilius
      letter 21 · letter 53 · letter 56 · letter 58 · letter 59 · letter 70 · letter 82 · letter 84 · and 6 more chapters
      14
      He who is going to be a grammarian and examines Virgil reads that excellent line, "irrecoverable time flees on," not with this mind:
      Letters to Lucilius · letter 108 · the philosopher extends Virgil's poetic line into a moral lesson about urgency

    14. Epicurus 1 authority 2 neutral 2 extended 5 endorsed 10 citations

      Letters to Lucilius
      letter 2 · letter 8 · letter 9 · letter 14 · letter 16 · letter 17 · letter 18 · letter 19 · and 2 more chapters
      10
      Today's is this, which I came upon in Epicurus—for I am accustomed to cross even into the enemy's camp, not as a deserter, but as a scout.
      Letters to Lucilius · letter 2 · cites Epicurus as source of the day's saying, endorsing its truth

    15. Georgics Virgil 2 authority 1 neutral 3 citations

      Letters to Lucilius
      letter 59 · letter 86 · letter 101
      3
      You too shall be sheltered by that tree which "comes late, to make shade for late descendants," as our Virgil says, who looked not at what could be said most truly, but at what could be said most fittingly, and wished not to instruct farmers, but to delight his readers.
      Letters to Lucilius · letter 86 · cites Virgil as poetic authority on planting for the future

    16. Lucretius 2 authority 2 citations

      Letters to Lucilius
      letter 95 · letter 106
      2
      'For I shall begin to discourse to you of the high reckoning of heaven and of the gods, and to lay open the first beginnings of things, whence nature creates all things, increases and nourishes them, and whither again she dissolves the same when they are spent,' as Lucretius says.
      Letters to Lucilius · letter 95 · cited as poetic authority supporting the claim that philosophy is contemplative

    17. Aristophanes 1 neutral 1 citation

      On the Happy Life
      1 citation
      I myself once furnished Aristophanes with matter for his jests;
      on the happy life · reports the comic tradition's mockery of Socrates

    18. Eclogues Virgil 1 authority 1 citation

      Letters to Lucilius
      letter 73
      1
      "He allowed my cattle to wander, as you see, and myself to play what I would on the rustic reed" — how greatly do we value this leisure, which is passed among the gods, which makes gods?
      Letters to Lucilius · letter 73 · uses the poetic authority of the quoted verse to illustrate gratitude for leisure as a divine gift

    19. Euripides 1 neutral 1 citation

      Letters to Lucilius
      letter 115
      1
      When these last verses had been pronounced in a tragedy of Euripides, the whole people rose up with one impulse to cast out both the actor and the play, until Euripides himself sprang forth into the midst, asking them to wait and to see what end this admirer of gold would make.
      Letters to Lucilius · letter 115 · cited specific work and author reported with narrative detail about audience reaction

    20. Hesiod 1 neutral 1 citation

      On Benefits
      book 1
      1
      in Hesiod she is one of the Graces, in Homer one of the Muses.
      On Benefits · book 1 · cited poetic authority whose account is reported neutrally, then relativized by Homer's differing account

    21. Hippocrates 1 authority 1 citation

      On the Shortness of Life
      1 citation
      “Life is short, art is long.
      on the shortness of life · establishes the treatise's opening authority for the theme of brevity of life

    22. Horace 1 endorsed 1 citation

      Letters to Lucilius
      letter 119
      1
      And so Horace says excellently that it makes no difference to thirst in what cup or by how elegant a hand the water is served.
      Letters to Lucilius · letter 119 · poetic authority endorsed for illustrating indifference of natural need to luxury

    23. Hymn to Zeus Cleanthes 1 endorsed 1 citation

      Letters to Lucilius
      letter 107
      1
      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.
      Letters to Lucilius · letter 107 · central authoritative text translated and affirmed as the letter's culminating statement

    24. Isocrates 1 authority 1 citation

      On Tranquillity of Mind
      1 citation
      Isocrates laid his hand on Ephorus and drew him away from the forum, judging him more useful for composing records of history;
      on tranquillity of mind · cited as an authoritative example supporting the principle that forced natures respond badly

    the index of the library

    8 entries

    L

    1. Letters of Cicero Cicero Letters to Lucilius 1
    2. the laws Plato Letters to Lucilius 1

    O

    1. On Benefits Seneca Letters to Lucilius 1
    2. On the Commonwealth Cicero Letters to Lucilius 1

    P

    1. Polybius Consolation to Polybius 1
    2. Prometheus Maecenas Letters to Lucilius 1

    S

    1. Satires Horace Letters to Lucilius 1
    2. Stoic paradoxes the Stoic school Letters to Lucilius 1

    named once

    330 sources · 13 works

    Each of these stands at a single passage, named once and not held by the library. The work that names it carries the anchor.

    On Leisure
    Epicurean doctrine (maxim on public affairs) · Reported saying on withdrawing from pleasure · Stoic doctrine (maxim on public affairs) · The law of Chrysippus (on choosing leisure) · The lives and example of Zeno, Chrysippus, and Cleanthes · Unnamed Stoic precepts/maxims
    On Providence
    Cato's final speech (oral/reported utterance) · Cato's reported catalogue of grievances (oral/reported utterance) · God's own reported speech on providence and death · Rutilius's reported refusal of recall (oral/reported utterance) · Saying on adversity (oral saying) · Spirited utterance on offering oneself to the gods (oral saying) · verse on the Bull, Archer, and Lion in the sky (embedded poetic quotation) · verse on the chariot of the Sun (embedded poetic quotation)
    On the Steadfastness of the Wise Man
    Anecdote concerning Antisthenes's ancestry · Anecdotes/tradition concerning Socrates · Epicurean doctrine on the bearability of injuries · anecdote of the man called sea-wether · saying on fortune and the wise man · unspecified Stoic doctrine of the wise man
    Consolation to Marcia
    Consolation of Areus to Julia Augusta (oral philosophical counsel) · Pythian oracle inscription (Know Thyself) · Sayings/example of Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi · Unnamed tragic verse on universal misfortune · an oral or written report concerning a boy of extraordinary stature · unspecified poetic accounts of the underworld
    Consolation to Helvia
    Custom/ordinance on mourning (ancestral Roman law) · Exemplum of Cornelia · Exemplum of Helvia's sister's shipwreck and conduct in Egypt · Exemplum of Rutilia · On Virtue · On the Nature of Things / natural philosophy remedy · Reported saying of a son of Cornelia · Stoic teaching/school · the verdict/opinion of the crowd · unspecified philosophical writings on grief
    On the Shortness of Life
    Poetic tales of Jupiter · antiquarian dispute on the Iliad and Odyssey and Ulysses's rowers · letter to the Senate · oral report on Roman antiquarian firsts · unspecified oracle-like line on the brevity of true living · unspecified saying doubting the value of trivial studies · unspecified saying on fighting the passions · unspecified saying on the best day fleeing
    Consolation to Polybius
    Historical annals and public records of the Caesars · Saying on the death of his son · doctrine that the wise man does not grieve
    On the Happy Life
    reputation and biography concerning wealth · Death and last words of Diodorus · Doctrine that pleasure cannot be separated from virtue · Life and philosophy of Zeno · Reputation of Epicurus's school as licentious · Stoic doctrine of living according to nature · Teachings of Epicurus · sacred writings / oracular teaching of philosophy · unspecified poetic tradition depicting Jupiter
    On Mercy
    Greek verse on the earth mingled with fire · Stoic doctrine on pity and pardon · brief precepts for princes on mercy (lost portion of De Clementia, preserved as testimonia) · the common law of living creatures / law of nature · the law (Roman penal tradition regarding parricide) · unspecified verse (attributed line, 'Let them hate, provided they fear') · unspecified verse of Accius (tragic line)
    On Anger
    A poetic line about animals not remembering wrath · Ajax (mythic tradition) · Example of Cato's conduct · Hieronymus · Let them hate, so long as they fear (saying) · Reported saying to a slave ("I would beat you, were I not angry") · Saying that the wise man's mind retains a scar though healed · Stoic doctrine on anger and self-examination · Teaching/example of Diogenes the Stoic · an opposing philosophical position on virtue and anger (likely Peripatetic/Aristotelian doctrine) · anecdote of Gaius Caesar and Pastor · anecdote of the bath assault · legend of Priam and Achilles · line on mutual fear · record of Sulla's proscriptions · saving precept on tranquility · saying on generalship · teaching on the mirror technique · unspecified Stoic teaching on the seat of anger · unspecified history (Ab Urbe Condita, implied) · unspecified poetic line on national character and climate · verses on Bellona and Discord
    On Tranquillity of Mind
    manner of facing mankind's vices · Counsel on public engagement and withdrawal · Maxim on dining and reciprocity · Praise of the Alexandrian library's loss · Remark on baldness and hair-plucking · Saying on preferring death to mere life · Treatise on euthymia · mimes / sayings · saying on the origins of human concerns · saying on the pleasure of madness · teaching on tranquillity · unspecified saying on gladiators
    On Benefits
    Epicurean doctrine · On Benefits / treatise on benefits (title not given in window) · Stoic debate on self-directed benefit · Stoic doctrine on vice and virtue · Stoic teaching on tyrannicide and kingship · a comic poet · account of the Graces' genealogy · anecdote of Arcesilaus and the miserly father · anecdote of Callistratus's exile · anecdote of the loan to an unfit man · argument on ingratitude and intent · civil/Roman law of property and kingship · doctrine on benefits owed to the wicked · doctrine that a wicked man cannot be profited · maxim on the difficulty of reciprocal duty · sacrilege paradox arguments · saying attributed to Marcus Cato · saying of Aristippus on perfume · saying on financial loss · sophistical argument on the wise man and gifts (Stoic dialectical objection) · teachings of the masters of wisdom on open and secret benefits · the Stoic paradox that gladly receiving a benefit repays it · the ball-game analogy · unnamed poetic hyperboles ('whiter than snow', 'more unmoving than rocks') · unspecified maxim of the forefathers · unspecified poem (possibly Bellum Actiacum or similar) · unspecified poem or saying (possibly Vergil) · unspecified saying on being surpassed in benefits · unspecified teaching/example on duty and will · unspecified teachings/sayings of Demetrius the Cynic
    Letters to Lucilius
    On the golden age and the origins of the arts · Philosophical writings (unspecified) · definition of walking · example of philosophy's power over birth · letter to his sister on the loss of her son · unnamed tragic poet · unspecified work(s) on Etna · Aeneid (opening line, unnamed) · Anecdote of the Thirty Tyrants · Annals · Ariston · Attribution practice within the Epicurean school · Cicero's phrase · Declamatory topos on drunkenness (casks bursting with new wine) · Defense of Zeno's syllogism · Demetrius's teaching on the untroubled life · Democritus · Doctrine of the twofold highest good (bodily painlessness and mental tranquility) · Doctrine on virtue, the honourable, and happiness · Doctrine that pleasure, not virtue, makes the virtuous man happy · Epicurean refrain on the underworld · Hecato · Image of the dog and the master · Inscription at the Garden · Latin translation practice · Letter to Idomeneus · Marcus Cato · Maxims and chriae attributed to Zeno and Cleanthes · Metrodorus · O dismal trifles! (exclamation) · Odyssey (episode of the Sirens) · On Civil Affairs · On Duty · On the Soul / fragment on flux (unspecified) · Peripatetic doctrine of moderated passions · Peripatetic doctrine on passions · Peripatetic doctrine on wisdom and being wise · Peripatetic objection via the helmsman analogy · Pomponius · Precepts on death and pain · Reflections of Marcus Cato · Reported quip on bookcases · Reported saying on happiness amid suffering · Reported saying to a complaining traveler · Roman eloquence / oratorical style · Saying about travel and self · Saying on acting as if watched · Saying on beginning life · Saying on contending with Jupiter · Saying on dying as one was born · Saying on nearer causes of death · Saying on rehearsing death · Saying on running to death · Saying on the bull of Phalaris · Saying on virtue and physical beauty (unnamed source) · Saying on wealth and desire (to/about Pythocles) · Sayings (unspecified) · Sayings on Jupiter and the good man · Simile of the dying fire · Stoic doctrine · Stoic doctrine of categories (unspecified) · Stoic doctrine of principles (cause and matter) · Stoic doctrine of the soul · Stoic doctrine of virtue's self-sufficiency · Stoic doctrine on externals · Stoic doctrine on virtues as living creatures · Stoic doctrine on wisdom as a corporeal good · Stoic school doctrine on analogy and virtue · Stoic syllogism against drunkenness · Stoic teaching on suicide and natural law · Teaching on truth and virtue · Teaching on virtue and the flesh · The road to the stars · Unspecified doctrine on death beyond all fear · Unspecified proverb on the poor man counting his flock · Unspecified saying on not wishing to please the people · Unspecified saying on poverty and Nature's law · Unspecified saying on the beginning of safety · Views of the Old Academy · Virgil, Aeneid (quoted verse on foreseen evils) · Writings (unspecified book read aloud) · Your own verse on death · a certain letter · a certain letter (of Epicurus to/about Metrodorus) · a certain letter (of Metrodorus) · a counter-syllogism on death and indifference · a saying of Attalus · a syllogism on death and glory · a true saying on prayer · account of the Clodius trial · an unspecified verse · analogy of the trumpet and verse · anecdote of Vinicius's speech · anonymous poet (author disputed) · archaic legal/oratorical diction · argument on riches as cause of evil · argument that a perfected being cannot be further profited · belief in personal tutelary gods (Genius and Juno) · definition of 'constitution' as governing part of the mind · distinction between a thing and having/being it · doctrine of transmigration of souls · doctrine that nothing is just by nature · hedonist doctrine of imagined interlocutor · hedonist teaching ('it is sweet') · history of the Punic War · legal doctrine on public land and use · letters to Polyaenus · manner of discourse · maxim on buying only what is necessary · maxim on concord and discord · medical claim about women's health · medical school teachings · objection concerning goods and music · objection concerning goods and the despised · objection on newborn creatures' understanding of danger · objection on rational constitution and infants · objection to Vinicius's eloquence · old Roman plays · old epistolary greeting custom · old precept · oral anecdote about Sextus Papinius · oratorical style · philosophers' writings (list of philosophers) · philosophical distinction · philosophical doctrine against suicide · poem on Aetna · precept on living as if watched by a moral witness · prose style (unspecified works) · proverbial saying on lifelong learning · recited poem on sunrise and sunset · refutation of the sophism on riches from poverty · reported rapid speaking style · reported statement · saying against Vatinius · saying on dying one's own death · saying on fortune's camp · saying on hoping while alive · saying on the guilty man's insecurity · saying on the imperceptible bite of tiny creatures · sayings of Demetrius · sayings/doctrines of the Stoic and Academic schools · school practice/tradition · sense-based hedonist epistemology · sentiment on fortune and self-reliance · sophism on riches and poverty · stage tragedy addressing Menelaus · stage tragedy referencing Argos and Pelops · syllogism on goods and music · syllogism on goods and the despised · teaching on temples and divine images · teaching on transmigration of souls · teachings claiming Stoic authority on love and pleasure · teachings on the reasons for abstaining from animal flesh · teachings on types of learners · the law of human equality in death · the proverb on speech and life · the sophism known as 'the liar' · the threefold classification of those making progress (Stoic doctrine) · tomb inscription of Dossennus · unnamed Greek tragedy · unnamed book sent by Lucilius · unnamed closing saying on the folly of always beginning to live · unnamed comic poet · unnamed poems (epic verses on the Sun's palace) · unspecified Stoic doctrine on the wished-for good · unspecified doctrine adding a civil part · unspecified doctrine dividing philosophy into one part · unspecified doctrine dividing philosophy into two parts · unspecified doctrine of monism · unspecified doctrine of nihilism · unspecified doctrine on Homer's authorship · unspecified doctrine on appearance and non-existence · unspecified doctrine on liberal arts and philosophy · unspecified doctrine on the classification of the arts · unspecified doctrine reducing philosophy to ethics · unspecified doctrine that any matter can be argued on either side · unspecified early poem · unspecified epic verse (Trojan War lament) · unspecified epic/martial verse · unspecified letter to a partner in his studies · unspecified maxim on saving time · unspecified philosophical works · unspecified philosophical/rhetorical works · unspecified poem referencing Pallas at the headland · unspecified saying of Ariston · unspecified saying on living creatures' motion from fear of pain · unspecified saying on necessity and liberty · unspecified saying on the equality of days · unspecified saying on the wise man and natural riches · unspecified sayings/precepts · unspecified skeptical doctrines · unspecified teaching on the highest good · unspecified teaching on the preceptive part of philosophy · unspecified teachings on prescription, persuasion, aetiologia, ethologia · unspecified verse ('Dare, my guest, to despise wealth') · unspecified verse on the decrees of the gods · unspecified writings/terminology · verses (unspecified poetic lines) · verses / mimes · verses on Scipio Africanus and on heaven's gate · verses on the prayer of Maecenas · view on prologues to the laws of Plato · witty remark on the Clodian jurors

    cited by

    14 citations · from 8 works

    8 works in the library quote Seneca, Lucius Annaeus — 14 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

    through Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 5 · On the Happy Life 3 · Thyestes 3 · On Benefits 1 · Oedipus 1 · Octavia 1

    by the citing author

    Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 6 · Cicero, Marcus Tullius 4 · Hugo Grotius 3 · Tertullian 1

    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 Seneca, Lucius Annaeus is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

    1. The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) Hugo Grotius 3 authority 3 citations · 8 passages

      ch. 23 2 · letter ii 6

      Explicitly named as Seneca's tragedy and quoted.

      It is this to which Seneca alludes in his tragedy Thyestes,
      ch. 23

    2. Letters to Lucilius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 3 extended 3 citations · 4 passages

      letter 75 · letter 76 2 · letter 81

      Explicit self-citation: 'as I remember I wrote in a certain letter, "they do not know that they know."'

      as I remember I wrote in a certain letter, "they do not know that they know.
      letter 75

    3. On Moral Ends Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 refuted 2 citations · 3 passages

      book 5 3

      Piso explicitly criticizes Theophrastus's book on the happy life as giving 'a great deal indeed... to fortune' and calls the reasoning 'softer... and more effeminate,' a clear refutation of its conclusion.

      Which is chiefly brought about by Theophrastus's book on the happy life, in which a great deal indeed is given to fortune.
      book 5

    4. Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 2 refuted 2 citations · 3 passages

      book 1 2 · book 5

      Explicitly named work and author whose thesis is contested by the speaker's argument.

      But here this most elegant of all the philosophers and the most learned is not greatly reprehended when he says there are three kinds of goods, but he is harassed by all, first in that book which he wrote On the Happy Life, in which he disputes much why he who is tortured, who is racked, cannot be happy.
      book 5

    5. Consolation to Polybius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 extended 1 citation

      consolation to polybius

      The text explicitly refers back to a prior survey ('now that I have gone round all the Caesars') within the same work, extending that catalogue with the case of Gaius.

      Yet I cannot, now that I have gone round all the Caesars from whom Fortune snatched away brothers and sisters, pass over this one, who must be set apart from the whole company of the Caesars—him whom Nature brought forth for the destruction and reproach of the human race, by whom the empire was scorched and utterly overthrown, and which now the clemency of the gentlest of princes restores.
      consolation to polybius

    6. On Anger Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 extended 1 citation

      book 3

      The passage continues and develops the treatise's own ongoing argument about anger, marking it as a self-citation/extension of the work's project.

      but this very thing will be a part of anger raging beyond its custom.
      book 3

    7. On Providence Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 extended 1 citation

      on providence

      The speaker explicitly refers to 'a larger work' in which providence and God's care were already proven, treating this discourse as a narrower extension of that argument.

      This would be more conveniently answered within the framework of a larger work, in which we proved that providence presides over all things and that God is concerned with us.
      on providence

    8. Apologeticum Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation

      apologeticum

      The tragedy is invoked as background to the Macedonians' mocking reaction.

      And the Macedonians too were suspected, because, when first they heard the tragedy of Oedipus, mocking the incestuous man's grief, they would say, "Drive on against the mother.
      apologeticum