Phaedrus, cited

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1. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 2 authority · 1 extended 3 citations · 4 passages

   book 1 · book 2 · book 5 2 passages anchored here

   Named directly as a Platonic dialogue used to establish Plato's regard for barbarian wisdom.

   and in the Phaedrus he shows the Egyptian king to be wiser even than Thoth, whom he knows to be Hermes.

2. On Moral Ends Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 authority 1 citation

   book 2

   Explicitly names Plato's Phaedrus as the origin of the rule of definition, treated as authoritative

   This rule, laid down by Plato in the Phaedrus, Epicurus approved, and felt that it ought to be done in every discussion.

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

   book 1

   Explicitly named as the dialogue containing the self-motion argument.

   From this arose that reasoning of Plato's, which was explained by Socrates in the Phaedrus, and which I set down in the sixth book of my Republic:

4. De Anima Tertullian 1 refuted 1 citation

   de anima

   The Phaedrus is cited as evidence that Plato, through Socrates, denies confident self-knowledge, undermining trust in the senses.

   But indeed Plato, that he might set no mark of testimony upon the senses, therefore in the Phaedrus too, in the person of Socrates, denies that he can know himself, as the Delphic inscription admonishes, and in the Theaetetus takes from himself knowing and perceiving, and in the Phaedo defers his verdict until after death, a posthumous verdict on truth, namely — and yet, not yet dead, he was philosophizing.