Virgil in the library

9 works in the library quote Virgil — 33 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

through Aeneid 22 citations · Virgil 11 citations

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 21 citations · Hugo Grotius 5 citations · Tertullian 5 citations · Cicero, Marcus Tullius 2 citations

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

1. Letters to Lucilius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 12 authority · 2 neutral · 4 extended · 1 endorsed 19 citations · 29 passages

   letter 21 · letter 28 2 passages anchored here · letter 53 · letter 56 · letter 58 3 passages anchored here · letter 59 · letter 70 · letter 79

   and 10 more chapters

   letter 82 · letter 84 · letter 92 · letter 95 3 passages anchored here · letter 101 · letter 102 · letter 104 · letter 108 6 passages anchored here · letter 115 2 passages anchored here · letter 122

   Explicit quotation: 'Many a time the hero's worth returns upon the mind, and the high honour of his race,' introduced to support the point about the usefulness of examples.

   For though that man himself be snatched from sight, yet "Many a time the hero's worth returns upon the mind, and the high honour of his race.

2. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 4 authority 4 citations · 9 passages

   ch. 12 3 passages anchored here · ch. 23 · ch. 24 2 passages anchored here · ch. 34 · ch. 48 2 passages anchored here

   Explicitly named across three separate paragraphs as poetic authority.

   Thus Ilioneus in Virgil calls heaven to witness the injustice of the Africans in driving him and his shipwrecked companions from the hospitable use of the shore, and we are informed by Plutarch in his life of Pericles that all the Grecians approved of the complaint, which the Megarensians made against the Athenians, who had prohibited them from setting foot upon the soil of their territories, or c …

3. Ad Nationes Tertullian 1 authority · 1 refuted · 1 extended 3 citations

   book 1 · book 2 2 passages anchored here

   The passage quotes and then substantially develops the classical poetic characterization of Report as lying and evil.

   "Report, an evil than which nothing else is swifter"?

4. Apologeticum Tertullian 1 authority · 1 neutral 2 citations

   apologeticum 2 passages anchored here

   Explicitly quoted as authority to characterize the untrustworthiness of rumor.

   It is your own poet who says:

5. On Fate Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 citation

   on fate

   The fragment explicitly locates itself as a comment on 'Vergil, Aeneid 3.376,' with the quoted phrase 'And he rolls round the changes' drawn from that poem.

   ’ (Servius, on Vergil, Aeneid 3.

6. On the Commonwealth Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 citation

   book 4

   The paragraph is explicitly headed '[Servius, on Aeneid 5.546]', citing Virgil's Aeneid via Servius's commentary as the transmitting source.

   [Servius, on Aeneid 5.

7. The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) Hugo Grotius 1 authority 1 citation · 6 passages

   letter ii 6 passages anchored here

   Cited by book and line at multiple anchors, including translation notes.

   Vergil, Aeneid I, 539–540.

8. Consolation to Polybius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 authority 1 citation

   consolation to polybius

   Virgil is named alongside Homer as an authority Polybius should turn to for consolation and study.

   then let Homer and Virgil—men who have deserved as well of the human race as you have deserved both of them and of all men, whom you wished to be known to more than had read them—abide long with you;

9. On Benefits Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 extended 1 citation

   book 6

   The line 'There is no delay in Turnus' is a recognizable quotation used to extend a literary phrase into Seneca's own ethical self-description, though Virgil is not named directly in this window.

   4 Add, that they aid us of set purpose, and therefore we are laid under obligation, because we did not fall into the benefit of those who knew not, but they knew that we, who receive these things, would receive them;