The sources of Timaeus
Where Timaeus names another work or author, the harvest records the passage that does it and the chapter that passage stands in. 4 citations across 1 chapter, drawn from 4 named sources; 1 of those sources stand in the library.
2 authority 1 neutral 1 extended
the sources most drawn on
1 of 1 source-
Timaeus Plato 1 extended 1 citation · 50 passages
The work itself is titled Timaeus and is Cicero's Latin version/adaptation of Plato's dialogue of that name, developing its cosmological argument at length.
Wherefore, if perchance, in discoursing of the nature of the gods and the origin of the universe, we fall short of what our minds long for — that the whole discourse should hold together, lucid and plainly adorned, and agree with itself in every part — it will be no wonder at all;
timaeus · the whole extracted cosmological argument is a Latin rendering/adaptation of Plato's dialogue ¶
named once
3 sourcesEach stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.
- timaeus 3 sources
- Carneades · Pythagoreans · ancient and primeval men (ancestral tradition)
the marks
- authority
- relied on as a source of legitimacy
- neutral
- identified or reported
- refuted
- argued against
- extended
- developed or continued
- endorsed
- agreed with
- roman
- the cited text is in the library and opens in the reader
- italic
- named by this text, not held by the library — the corpus's wanted list
- ¶
- the passage in this text that does the citing
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- beside a chapter, the passages anchored there. A single citation can quote more than one passage, which is why a row carries two figures: the citations the harvest recorded, and the passages its chapters add up to.
Every count on this page is a link to the passages behind it. A name without a link is recorded but not yet paged. How the harvest reads.