He who commands the sea has command of everything.

Existimat enim, qui mare teneat, eum necesse esse rerum potiri.

Themistocles

Quoted in Letters to Atticus, by Cicero

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Topic

Naval power Ocean and sea

Speaker

Themistocles

Author

Cicero

Source

Letters to Atticus

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

462 BC 460s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

General Politician

From

Greece Europe Ancient Greece

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Original Citation

Themistocles. Quoted in Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], by Marcus Tullius Cicero. 1 century BC, bk. 10, no. 8.

Current Citation

Themistocles. Quoted in Cicero: Letters to Atticus, by Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey. Vol. 2, Harvard, University Press, 1999, bk. 10, no. 8.

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Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla

Author

Cicero
Source
Pro Milone
Statement Type
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Language
Latin
Time
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Era
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Citation

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Author

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Source
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
Medium
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Statement Type
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Language
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Time
1851 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 135.

Current Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 135.

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Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Language
Hebrew
Time
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Era
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Authentication Score 3
Citation

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Author

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Source
Institutio Oratoria
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
Latin
Time
95 90s 1st century
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Citation

Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria [Institutes of Oratory]. c. 95 AD, bk. 4, ch. 1, sect. 91.