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Necessitas

Necessity

also: Necessitas, Necessity, Ananke

The personification of Necessity (Greek Ananke), the inexorable law that all must die and earth be rendered back to earth. She closes the song of Euripides that Cicero quotes (and that Carneades faulted Chrysippus for praising) on the universal lot of mortal grief.

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Mentioned in 70 works (188 mentions)

On Invention rhet · 23 mentions
For Publius Quinctius speech · 4 mentions
For Sextus Roscius of Ameria speech · 3 mentions
For Marcus Tullius speech · 1 mention
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book II speech · 1 mention
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book III speech · 9 mentions
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book IV speech · 1 mention
Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book V speech · 3 mentions
For Marcus Fonteius speech · 1 mention
For Aulus Cluentius speech · 3 mentions
Against Catiline, Second Speech speech · 2 mentions
Against Catiline, Fourth Speech speech · 1 mention
For Gaius Rabirius on a Charge of High Treason speech · 1 mention
For Publius Sulla speech · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 2.1 letter · 1 mention
On His House speech · 1 mention
On His Return: To the Citizens speech · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 4.5 letter · 1 mention
On the Consular Provinces speech · 4 mentions
For Marcus Caelius speech · 1 mention
For Publius Sestius speech · 4 mentions
On the Orator rhet · 7 mentions
Ad Quintum Fratrem 3.1 letter · 1 mention
The Subdivisions of Oratory rhet · 6 mentions
For Gnaeus Plancius speech · 1 mention
For Gaius Rabirius Postumus speech · 3 mentions
For Marcus Aemilius Scaurus speech · 1 mention
On the Laws phil · 2 mentions
For Titus Annius Milo speech · 2 mentions
Ad Familiares 8.10 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 15.1 letter · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 7.9 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 3.10 letter · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 10.8 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 15.21 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 4.8 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 4.9 letter · 2 mentions
Ad Familiares 6.7 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 6.10 letter · 1 mention
Brutus rhet · 2 mentions
On the Best Kind of Orators rhet · 1 mention
Orator: To Marcus Brutus rhet · 8 mentions
Stoic Paradoxes phil · 3 mentions
For Quintus Ligarius speech · 3 mentions
Academica phil · 1 mention
Ad Atticum 13.26 letter · 1 mention
On the Ends of Good and Evil phil · 6 mentions
On the Nature of the Gods phil · 6 mentions
Timaeus (Latin translation) phil · 7 mentions
Tusculan Disputations phil · 4 mentions
Ad Atticum 14.12 letter · 1 mention
Cato the Elder, On Old Age phil · 1 mention
On Divination phil · 2 mentions
On Fate phil · 13 mentions
On Duties phil · 3 mentions
Laelius, On Friendship phil · 1 mention
Second Philippic speech · 2 mentions
Third Philippic speech · 1 mention
Fourth Philippic speech · 1 mention
Topics: To Gaius Trebatius rhet · 6 mentions
Ad M. Brutum 1.4 letter · 1 mention
Ad M. Brutum 1.9 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 11.10 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 11.19 letter · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 11.20 letter · 1 mention
Tenth Philippic speech · 1 mention
Eleventh Philippic speech · 2 mentions
Twelfth Philippic speech · 2 mentions
Philippica XIV speech · 1 mention
Fifth Philippic speech · 3 mentions

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