Terence in the library

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

through Terence 6 citations · Andria 1 citation · Phormio 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 Terence is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. On the Nature of the Gods Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 authority · 3 neutral 4 citations

   book 2 2 passages anchored here · book 3 2 passages anchored here

   Terence's line is invoked to support the claim that ordinary usage deifies natural goods.

   And so at one time they called by the name of a god the thing which was born of a god, as when we call the crops Ceres and wine Liber — whence that line of Terence,

2. On Moral Ends Cicero, Marcus Tullius 2 neutral 2 citations

   book 1 · book 5

   A character and line from Terence is invoked to illustrate a point about apparent self-injury, reported neutrally as an example rather than endorsed or refuted.

   Nor indeed, if some are found who seek either nooses or other deaths, or, like that man in Terence, who 'resolved meanwhile to do less injustice to his own son,' as he himself says, 'until he should be made wretched,' is he to be thought his own enemy.

3. Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 2 endorsed 2 citations

   book 3 2 passages anchored here

   Cicero says Terence 'said it so aptly,' a clear mark of endorsement.

   \" Therefore, since Terence, having taken this from philosophy, said it so aptly, shall not we, from whose springs it was drawn, both say it better and feel it more steadfastly?