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Decimus Laberius
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“Quem nulla ambitio, nulla umquam largitio, nullus timor, vis nulla, nulla auctoritas movere potuit in iuventa de statu, ecce in senecta ut facile labefecit loco viri excellentis mente clemente edita summissa placide blandiloquens oratio?”
Decimus Laberius (106–43 BC) said by 43 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Other translations: Oliver Goldsmith, An Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe (1759), pp. 176–7: see Austin Dobson, ed., Selected Poems of Goldsmith (1887), pp. 156–7; W. Below, The Attic Nights o…
“Ut hedera serpens vires arboreas necat, ita me vetustas amplexu annorum enecat. sepulcri similis nihil nisi nomen retineo.”
Decimus Laberius (106–43 BC) said by 43 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Porro, Quirites, libertatem perdimus.”
Decimus Laberius (106–43 BC) said by 43 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Necesse est multos timeat quem multi timent.”
Decimus Laberius (106–43 BC) said by 43 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Non possunt primi esse omnes omni in tempore. summum ad gradum cum claritatis veneris, consistes aegre et citius quam ascendas cades. cecidi ego, cadet qui sequitur: laus est publica.”
Decimus Laberius (106–43 BC) said by 43 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Other translations:None the first place for ever can retain— But, ever as the topmost round you gain, Painful your station there and swift your fall. I fell—the next who wins with equal pain The slippery height, falls t…