The sources of Lucullus

1. Plato 1 authority · 2 neutral 3 citations

   book 1 3 passages anchored here

   Plato's writings are explicitly invoked as evidence of his genuine philosophical commitment.

   What shall I say of Plato, who certainly would not have pursued these matters in so many books had he not approved them?

2. Aristotle 1 neutral 1 citation

   book 1

   Aristotle's specific counter-doctrine is reported directly and used to show that the wise man cannot hold both views comprehended.

   nor will he any more approve that it is now light than, since he is a Stoic, that this world is wise, that it has a mind which has fashioned both itself and the world and moderates, moves, rules all things;

3. Euripides 1 neutral 1 citation

   book 1

   Euripides is named directly as the source of the Hercules episode used as evidence.

   What of Hercules in Euripides, when, as he pierced the sons of Eurystheus, so he pierced his own with arrows, when he slew his wife, when he tried even to slay his father — was he not moved by false things just as he would be moved by true?

4. Timaeus Plato 1 neutral 1 citation

   book 1

   A specific work (the Timaeus) is named by title and its content characterized as possibly aligning with Hicetas's view, reported neutrally.

   And some think that Plato too says this in the Timaeus, but a little more obscurely.

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

book 1 78 sources

Books on the withholding of assent · Cosmological doctrine of the four heads / natural philosophy schools · Doctrine of probable impressions and withholding assent · Doctrine on the sorites (hesychazein) · Epicurean doctrine of pleasure · Epicurean physics/canon (doctrine that senses never lie) · Epicurean/Cyrenaic sensory-pleasure criterion of truth · Eretrian ethical doctrine (the good is in the mind's keenness) · Letter to Gaius Lucilius on Carneades's teaching · Logical doctrine on the connected proposition (conditional) · Megarian ethical doctrine (the good is the one, like, and same) · On Nature · On disjunctive propositions (Epicurean logic) · On the doubtfulness of divination · On the separation of opinion and clearness · On the universe / atomist natural philosophy · Reproach against Academic non-comprehension claim · Reproach against Philo (on false and true impressions) · Sosus · Stoic doctrine that all sins are equal · Stoic ethical doctrine (living honourably as the end) · Stoic theology (god as aether) · Stoic writings against the senses · The Labors of Hercules (myth, used metaphorically) · Tragedy featuring Alcmeon (attributed to Ennius's adaptation) · Tragedy featuring Ilione · a certain book praising philosophy (Cicero's Hortensius) · anti-Stoic hedonist-naturalist ethical construction · arguments against the senses and common approval · atomist doctrine (rough, smooth, hooked bodies with void) · book on grief · books on the method of speaking · claim regarding Africanus's irony · conditional statement analysis ("if it is day, it is light") · debate with Zeno on the criterion of a true impression · definition of the comprehensible impression (phantasia kataleptike) · definition of the perceivable impression · denial of the optical illusion of twisted-eye flames · doctrine combining freedom from distress with honour · doctrine of Arcesilas (New Academy) · doctrine of apatheia · doctrine of freedom from distress as the end · doctrine of inner perception only · doctrine of innumerable identical worlds · doctrine of sensory infallibility · doctrine of the earth's rotation · doctrine of the inhabited moon · doctrine of the probable / criterion of truth · doctrine on oikeion (natural affinity) · doctrine that happiness requires virtue plus other goods · doctrine that pleasure and honour are the ends · doctrine that the soul is a bodiless number · doctrine that the sun rules the cosmos · doctrine that virtue alone is good (and adiaphoria) · elements of the dialecticians · ethical doctrine placing the good in cognition and knowledge · hedonist ethical doctrine (Cyrenaic) · history written in Greek · professed ignorance (Socratic doctrine) · relativist criterion of truth · reversed doctrine on the highest good · saying about nature hiding the truth · syllogism on assent and opinion · teaching under Philo · the black-snow doctrine · the embassy account (history) · the histories concerning Africanus's embassy · the sorites method · three defensible opinions on the ends of goods · two books · unspecified Stoic treatises on impressions · unspecified accounts of Lucullus in Greek and Latin literature · unspecified natural-philosophical teaching · unspecified play (Ennius, on the sun/eyes trope) · verse on Cynosura and Phoenician navigation · verses on the senses' limits · verses rebuking claims to knowledge · writings of Polemo (Old Academy ethical doctrine)