The sources of On Providence
Where On Providence names another work or author, the harvest records the passage that does it and the chapter that passage stands in. 9 citations across 1 chapter, drawn from 9 named sources; 1 of those sources stand in the library.
3 authority 1 extended 5 endorsed
the sources most drawn on
1 of 1 source-
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 extended 1 citation
The speaker explicitly refers to 'a larger work' in which providence and God's care were already proven, treating this discourse as a narrower extension of that argument.
This would be more conveniently answered within the framework of a larger work, in which we proved that providence presides over all things and that God is concerned with us.
on providence · cites a prior/larger work as the fuller treatment being extended by this discourse ¶
named once
8 sourcesEach stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.
- on providence 8 sources
- Cato's final speech (oral/reported utterance) · Cato's reported catalogue of grievances (oral/reported utterance) · God's own reported speech on providence and death · Rutilius's reported refusal of recall (oral/reported utterance) · Saying on adversity (oral saying) · Spirited utterance on offering oneself to the gods (oral saying) · verse on the Bull, Archer, and Lion in the sky (embedded poetic quotation) · verse on the chariot of the Sun (embedded poetic quotation)
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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