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88 sources · 839 linked passages

Achilles (astronomical writer)2 passages
Aelian6 passages
Aëtius (Diels’s reconstructed collection)1 passage
Agathemerus1 passage
Albert the Great1 passage
Ammonius2 passages
Anonymous commentator on the Theaetetus1 passage
Anonymous scholiasts on Apollonius15 passages
Anonymous scholiasts on Aratus2 passages
Anonymous scholiasts on Aristophanes2 passages
Anonymous scholiasts on Dionysius Thrax1 passage
Anonymous scholiasts on Euripides4 passages
Anonymous scholiasts on Homer3 passages
Anonymous scholiasts on Pindar5 passages
Anonymous scholiasts on Sophocles2 passages
Apollonius Dyscolus2 passages
Apollonius of Citium1 passage
Apollonius of Rhodes1 passage
Aratus2 passages
Aristotle49 passages
Athenaeus18 passages
Athenagoras1 passage
Aulus Gellius2 passages
Caelius Aurelianus1 passage
Censorinus3 passages
Cicero4 passages
Clement of Alexandria66 passages
Columella5 passages
Cornutus2 passages
Damascius3 passages
Democrates (maxim collection)83 passages
Diodorus Siculus7 passages
Diogenes Laertius28 passages
Erotianus1 passage
Etymologicum Genuinum (anonymous)4 passages
Etymologicum Magnum (anonymous)1 passage
Eusebius of Caesarea2 passages
Eustathius4 passages
Eustratius1 passage
Galen7 passages
Harpocration2 passages
Heraclitus (Homeric commentator)1 passage
Herodian3 passages
Hesychius of Alexandria12 passages
Hippolytus12 passages
Iamblichus6 passages
John Lydus1 passage
John Tzetzes1 passage
Josephus1 passage
Macrobius1 passage
Mallius Theodorus1 passage
Marcus Aurelius5 passages
Maximus of Tyre1 passage
Nicomachus of Gerasa1 passage
Origen7 passages
Orion of Thebes1 passage
Palaephatus1 passage
Pausanias5 passages
Philo of Alexandria1 passage
Philodemus11 passages
Philostratus1 passage
Photius2 passages
Plato27 passages
Pliny the Elder7 passages
Plotinus2 passages
Plutarch72 passages
Polybius2 passages
Porphyry10 passages
Priscian1 passage
Proclus11 passages
Pseudo-Aristotle4 passages
Pseudo-Draco1 passage
Pseudo-Plato4 passages
Pseudo-Plutarch4 passages
Scholia on Gregory of Nazianzus (anonymous)1 passage
Scholia on Nicander (anonymous)1 passage
Seneca3 passages
Sextus Empiricus25 passages
Simplicius63 passages
Stobaeus165 passages
Strabo3 passages
The Suda (anonymous)5 passages
The Theology of Arithmetic (anonymous)1 passage
Themistius1 passage
Theon of Smyrna2 passages
Theophrastus6 passages
Varro3 passages
Xenophon2 passages
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The records identify authors and collections named in the historical editions used by this reader, including ancient writers, anonymous collections and medieval witnesses. Each citation retains its edition’s reference and a link to the evidence. A source may quote a fragment, paraphrase it, or report a teaching; its presence here does not establish authenticity.

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