The sources of On Fate

1. On Fate Marcus Tullius Cicero 2 authority 2 citations

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   Gellius explicitly names 'the book which he [Cicero] wrote on fate' as the source of the quoted material.

   And so Marcus Cicero, in the book which he wrote on fate, when he said that this question was most obscure and most entangled, declares that the philosopher Chrysippus too did not extricate himself in it, in these words:

2. Aeneid Vergil 1 neutral 1 citation

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   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.

3. Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 citation

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   Explicitly named as one of the narrator's own earlier published works.

   But what I did in my other books, those on the nature of the gods, and likewise in those I published on divination—namely, that the argument should be developed continuously on both sides, so that each man might the more readily accept whatever seemed to him most probable—a certain accident prevented me from doing in this discussion on fate.

4. Hippocrates 1 authority 1 citation

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   The passage explicitly states that Hippocrates 'left it in writing' his suspicion, treated as an authoritative medical record cited by Cicero.

   Cicero says that Hippocrates, the most renowned physician, left it in writing that he suspected certain brothers to be twins, since, when they had begun to fall ill at the same time and their disease grew worse at the same time and abated at the same time.

5. Homer 1 extended 1 citation

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   The verses are explicitly attributed to Homer and said to 'lend support to this opinion,' with Cicero credited as translator, making Cicero's use an extension of Homer's authority into the philosophical argument.

   Those verses of Homer also lend support to this opinion, which Cicero rendered into Latin:

6. On the Nature of the Gods Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 citation

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   Explicitly named as one of the narrator's own earlier books, referenced for its method of balanced argument.

   But what I did in my other books, those on the nature of the gods, and likewise in those I published on divination—namely, that the argument should be developed continuously on both sides, so that each man might the more readily accept whatever seemed to him most probable—a certain accident prevented me from doing in this discussion on fate.

7. Saturnalia Macrobius 1 neutral 1 citation

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   The fragment is explicitly attributed with a citation to 'Macrobius, Saturnalia 3.16.3.'

   ”’ (Macrobius, Saturnalia 3.

8. Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 authority 1 citation

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   Explicitly named by Hirtius as a known work of Cicero's demonstrating his Academic method of disputation.

   ‘But since your rhetorical works are known to me, and I have often heard you in them and shall hear you again, and since your Tusculan Disputations show that you have taken up this practice of the Academics of arguing against a proposition, I should like, if it is no trouble to you, to lay down some thesis for me to listen to.

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on fate 12 sources

Attic Nights · City of God · Commentary on the Aeneid · Stoic doctrine of sympathy and fate · atomic necessity · atomic theory and the swerve · defense of voluntary motion of mind without the swerve · doctrine of possibles (peri dynatōn) · oracle concerning Cypselus's reign at Corinth · the lazy argument (argos logos) · unspecified account of Daphitas, the castaway, and Icadius · verse on the fir-trees of Pelion (Medea)

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1. On Fate Cicero, Marcus Tullius 2 authority 2 citations

   on fate 2 passages anchored here

   Gellius explicitly names 'the book which he [Cicero] wrote on fate' as the source of the quoted material.

   And so Marcus Cicero, in the book which he wrote on fate, when he said that this question was most obscure and most entangled, declares that the philosopher Chrysippus too did not extricate himself in it, in these words: