Loci Communes (Pseudo-Maximus)
The ''Loci communes'' (Commonplaces) or ''Capita theologica'' (Theological Chapters) is a Byzantine Greek florilegium containing a mix of Judeo-Christian and pagan selections. It was originally compiled in the late 9th or early 10th century and subsequently enlarged around the year 1000.Corinne Jouanno, "Byzantine Views on Alexander the Great", in Kenneth Royce Moore (ed.), ''Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great'' (Brill, 2018), pp. 449–476, at 462–463. Misattributed to Maximus the Confessor, it was one of the most widely reproduced "sacro-profane" florilegia. Copies are preserved in some 90 manuscripts in three recensions: the original, the enlarged version and a later abridged version. The quotations contained in the ''Loci communes'' are mostly edifying and apophthegmatic. They are grouped into 71 chapters. The chapters may, very roughly,Denis M. Searby"Byzantine ‘Encyclopedism’, Sacro-Profane Florilegia and the Life of Saint Cyril Phileotes" in ...
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Kitāb Al-rawḍa TOC
Kitab ( ar, کتاب, link=no, ''kitāb''), also transcribed kitaab, is the Arabic, Turkic, Urdu, Hindi and in various Indian Languages word for "book". * ''Kitaab'', a 1977 Hindi language movie * ''Kithaab'' (also written ''Kitab''), a 2018 Malayalam language play * ''Kitab'', the Russian name for Kitob, a city in Uzbekistan See also * K-T-B, a Semitic word triconsonantal root * Khitab, a town in northwestern Syria * Kitab-Verlag, a publishing house in Klagenfurt, Austria * Mus'haf A muṣḥaf ( ar, مُصْحَفْ, ; plural ''maṣāḥif'') is an Arabic word for a codex or collection of sheets, but also refers to a written copy of the Quran. The chapters of the Quran, which Muslims believe was revealed during a 23-year ...

Solon
Solon ( grc-gre, Σόλων;  BC) was an Athenian statesman, constitutional lawmaker and poet. He is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic and moral decline in Archaic Athens.Aristotle ''Politics'' 1273b 35–1274a 21 His reforms failed in the short term, yet Solon is credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy.Stanton, G. R. ''Athenian Politics c. 800–500 BC: A Sourcebook'', Routledge, London (1990), p. 76.E. Harris, ''A New Solution to the Riddle of the Seisachtheia'', in ''The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece'', eds. L. Mitchell and P. Rhodes (Routledge 1997) 103 His constitutional reform also succeeded in overturning most laws established by Draco. Modern knowledge of Solon is limited by the fact that his works only survive in fragments and appear to feature interpolations by later authors and by the general paucity of documentary and archaeological evidence covering Athens in the early 6th cen ...
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