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Gaius Lucilius

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“O curas hominum! O quantum est in rebus inane!”
Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fragment of Book I, quoted by , Satires, I, 1; Warmington (1935), p. 2
“Vivite lurcones, comedones, vivite ventris!”
Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fragment of Book II, quoted by Nonius, 10, 27; Warmington (1935), p. 25
“Ut pueri infantes credunt signa omnia aena vivere et esse homines, sic isti somnia ficta vera putant, credunt signis cor inesse in aenis. Pergula pictorum, veri nil, omnia ficta.”
Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fragment of Book XV, quoted by Lactantius, Divine Institutes, I, 22, 13; Warmington (1935), p. 167
“Aurum vis hominemne? Habeas. "Hominem? quid ad aurum?”
Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fragment of Book XIX, quoted by Nonius, 358, 13; Warmington (1935), p. 183
“Publicanus vero ut Asiae fiam, ut scripturarius pro Lucilio, id ego nolo et uno hoc non muto omnia.”
Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fragment of Book XXVI, quoted by Nonius, 351, 6; Warmington (1935), p. 209
“Homini amico et familiari non est mentiri meum.”
Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fragment of Book XXVI, quoted by Lactantius, Divine Institutes, VI, 18, 6; Warmington (1935), p. 223
“Ut Romanus populus victus vei, superatus proeliis saepe est multis, bello vero numquam, in quo sunt omnia.”
Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fragment of Book XXVI, quoted by Nonius, 437, 14; Warmington (1935), p. 229
“Hunc laborem sumas laudem qui tibi ac fructum ferat.”
Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fragment of Book XXVI, quoted by Nonius, 396, 9; Warmington (1935), p. 229
“Paulo hoc melius quam mediocre, hoc minus malum quam ut pessumum.”
Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fragment of Book XXVII, quoted by Nonius, 29, 21; Warmington (1935), p. 253
“Cupiditas ex homine cupido ex stulto numquam tollitur.”
Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fragment of Book XXIX, quoted by Nonius, 436, 32; Warmington (1935), p. 311
“Accipiunt leges, populus quibus legibus exlex.”
Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fragment of Book XXX, quoted by Nonius, 10, 10; Warmington (1935), p. 331
“Nunc vero a mani ad noctem festo atque profesto totus item pariterque die populusque patresque iactare indu foro se omnes, decedere nusquam; uni se atque eidem studio omnes dedere et arti— verba dare ut caute possint, pugnare dolose, blanditia certare, bonum simulare virum se, insidias facere ut si hostes sint omnibus omnes.”
Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Unassigned Fragment, quoted by Lactantius, Divine Institutes, V, 9, 20; Warmington (1935), p. 373
“Quo fit ut omnis Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella Vita senis.”
Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Horace, Satires, II, 1, 32 (Conington); Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 2353A
“Ense velut stricto quotiens Lucilius ardens infremuit, rubet auditor cui frigida mens est criminibus, tacita sudant praecordia culpa.”
Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Juvenal, I, 165–7; G. G. Ramsay, Juvenal and Persius, LCL 91 (1918), p. 17
“Secuit Lucilius urbem, te Lupe, te Muci, et genuinum fregit in illis; omne vafer vitium ridenti Flaccus amico tangit et admissus circum praecordia ludit, callidus excusso populum suspendere naso.”
Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Persius, Satires, I, 114–5; Ramsay (1918), p. 329; or "lashed the city"; see Peter Green, Essays in Antiquity (1960), pp. 154–5