The sources of Consolation to Polybius
Where Consolation to Polybius names another work or author, the harvest records the passage that does it and the chapter that passage stands in. 7 citations across 1 chapter, drawn from 7 named sources; 4 of those sources stand in the library.
3 authority 1 refuted 2 extended 1 endorsed Of the 7 citations in Consolation to Polybius, 1 argues against its source.
the sources most drawn on
4 of 4 sources-
Homer 1 citation
Homer is named as one of the poets Polybius should turn to as a high priest and worshipper of letters for consolation.
then let Homer and Virgil—men who have deserved as well of the human race as you have deserved both of them and of all men, whom you wished to be known to more than had read them—abide long with you;
consolation to polybius · citation of Homer as literary authority recommended for solace ¶ -
Polybius 1 extended 1 citation · 2 passages
Seneca refers to Polybius's own translations of Homer and Virgil, urging him to take them up again and praising their quality as models to live up to.
Come now, take in hand those poems of either author that you have made famous by the great labour of your genius—poems that you have so recast that, although their structure has fallen away, their grace nevertheless remains;
consolation to polybius · identifies Polybius's translation work as the cited object ¶ -
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 extended 1 citation
The text explicitly refers back to a prior survey ('now that I have gone round all the Caesars') within the same work, extending that catalogue with the case of Gaius.
Yet I cannot, now that I have gone round all the Caesars from whom Fortune snatched away brothers and sisters, pass over this one, who must be set apart from the whole company of the Caesars—him whom Nature brought forth for the destruction and reproach of the human race, by whom the empire was scorched and utterly overthrown, and which now the clemency of the gentlest of princes restores.
consolation to polybius · invokes the author's own earlier enumeration (elsewhere in the work) of Caesars' losses as the basis for adding Gaius as a special case ¶ -
Virgil 1 citation
Virgil is named alongside Homer as an authority Polybius should turn to for consolation and study.
then let Homer and Virgil—men who have deserved as well of the human race as you have deserved both of them and of all men, whom you wished to be known to more than had read them—abide long with you;
consolation to polybius · citation of Virgil as literary authority recommended for solace ¶
named once
3 sourcesEach stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.
- consolation to polybius 3 sources
- Historical annals and public records of the Caesars · Saying on the death of his son · doctrine that the wise man does not grieve
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
- 7
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