Timaeus, cited

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1. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 2 authority · 2 extended 4 citations · 9 passages

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   Named directly and quoted.

   And in the Timaeus he brings in the most wise Solon learning from the barbarian.

2. De Anima Tertullian 1 neutral · 1 refuted 2 citations · 3 passages

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   The Timaeus is cited both as the source of the skeptical view of the senses (refuted) and as authority for environmental influence on talent (used approvingly).

   and Plato certainly in the Timaeus, pronouncing sense-perception irrational and entangled with mere opinion.

3. Lucullus Cicero, Marcus Tullius 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.

4. On Moral Ends Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 citation

   book 2

   Explicitly names Plato's Timaeus as an illustrative example, without endorsing or refuting it

   either if you do it on purpose, as Heraclitus, 'surnamed the Obscure, because he wrote of nature too darkly,' or when the obscurity of the matter, not of the words, makes the discourse not understood, as is the case in Plato's Timaeus.

5. On the Nature of the Gods Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 refuted 1 citation · 4 passages

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   Plato's Timaeus is explicitly named as the source of the craftsman-god doctrine and is repeatedly quoted-by-reference and argued against.

   It would be long to speak of Plato's inconsistency, who in the Timaeus denies that the father of this world can be named, while in the books of the Laws he holds that we ought not to inquire at all what god is.

6. Timaeus Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 extended 1 citation · 50 passages

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   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;

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

   book 1

   Explicitly named as the dialogue describing the god's construction of the world.

   For when Archimedes bound up in a sphere the motions of the moon, sun, and the five wandering stars, he brought about the same thing as he who, in the Timaeus, built the world — Plato's god — namely, that one revolution should govern motions most unlike in slowness and swiftness.