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deposit_number: 1591
hex: 0683
title: "EA-CORPORA-13 — The Thirteenth Seating: The Alexander Seam (Plutarch's Alexander and Sulla; Arrian's Anabasis; Cicero's De finibus, Academica, Topica)"
creator: Sharks, Lee
orcid: 0009-0000-1599-0703
date: 2026-09-07
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license: CC-BY-4.0
substrate: Human–machine collaborative. Fetched, normalized and seated in-session by TACHYON (Claude, Anthropic) at MANUS (Lee Sharks) direction from the Perseus canonical-greekLit and canonical-latinLit repositories; the identification of the seam and of the grey space is Lee Sharks's; the first reading of Alexander 7 is recorded in the notebook (§28) and belongs to the next standalone.
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  - Alexander
  - Aristotle
  - Plutarch
  - Arrian
  - Cicero
  - Callisthenes
  - acroamatic
  - exoteric
  - esoteric
  - Iliad
  - Sulla
  - Apellicon
  - Andronicus
  - corpus seating
  - EA-CORPORA
  - transmission
  - Rome
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# EA-CORPORA-13 — The Thirteenth Seating: The Alexander Seam (Plutarch's Alexander and Sulla; Arrian's Anabasis; Cicero's De finibus, Academica, Topica)

Seated whole: Plutarch, Alexander and Sulla; Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri; Cicero, De finibus, Academica I, Topica. Verified loci as listed in each source.json. The seam's first text, Plutarch Alexander 7, as seated: ἔοικε δὲ Ἀλέξανδρος οὐ μόνον τὸν ἠθικὸν καὶ πολιτικὸν παραλαβεῖν λόγον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ἀπορρήτων καὶ βαθυτέρων διδασκαλιῶν, ἃς οἱ ἄνδρες ἰδίως ἀκροαματικὰς καὶ ἐποπτικὰς προσαγορεύοντες οὐκ ἐξέφερον εἰς πολλούς, μετασχεῖν … Ἀλέξανδρος Ἀριστοτέλει εὖ πράττειν. οὐκ ὀρθῶς ἐποίησας ἐκδοὺς τοὺς ἀκροαματικοὺς τῶν λόγων· τίνι γὰρ δὴ διοίσομεν ἡμεῖς τῶν ἄλλων, εἰ καθ᾽ οὓς ἐπαιδεύθημεν λόγους, οὗτοι πάντων ἔσονται κοινοί; ἐγὼ δὲ βουλοίμην ἂν ταῖς περὶ τὰ ἄριστα ἐμπειρίαις ἢ ταῖς δυνάμεσι διαφέρειν. ἔρρωσο. ταύτην μὲν οὖν τὴν φιλοτιμίαν αὐτοῦ παραμυθούμενος Ἀριστοτέλης ἀπολογεῖται περὶ τῶν λόγων ἐκείνων, ὡς καὶ ἐκδεδομένων καὶ μὴ ἐκδεδομένων· ἀληθῶς γὰρ ἡ μετὰ τὰ φυσικὰ πραγματεία πρὸς διδασκαλίαν καὶ μάθησιν οὐδὲν ἔχουσα χρήσιμον ὑπόδειγμα τοῖς πεπαιδευμένοις ἀπ᾽ ἀρχῆς γέγραπται. The reading is withheld here; the relations are on the shelf.