The sources of On Mercy
Where On Mercy names another work or author, the harvest records the passage that does it and the book that passage stands in. 7 citations across 2 books, drawn from 7 named sources; 0 of those sources stand in the library.
2 authority 1 neutral 3 refuted 1 extended Of the 7 citations in On Mercy, 3 argue against their source.
the sources most drawn on
0 of 0 sourcesnamed once
7 sourcesEach stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.
- book 1 3 sources
- the common law of living creatures / law of nature · the law (Roman penal tradition regarding parricide) · unspecified verse of Accius (tragic line)
- book 2 4 sources
- Greek verse on the earth mingled with fire · Stoic doctrine on pity and pardon · brief precepts for princes on mercy (lost portion of De Clementia, preserved as testimonia) · unspecified verse (attributed line, 'Let them hate, provided they fear')
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
- 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.
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