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Gnaeus Naevius

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“Fato Metelli Romae fiunt consules.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: W. Beare, The Roman Stage, 3rd ed. (1964), p. 40:
“Novem Iovis concordes filiae sorores.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Postquam avem aspexit in templo Anchisa, sacra in mensa Penatium ordine ponuntur; immolabat auream victimam pulchram.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Janet Lembke, "Plasmata: After Ennius, Naevius and Lucilius", Arion, vol. 6, no. 3 (1967), p. 376:
“Amborum uxores noctu Troiad exibant capitibus opertis, flentes ambae, abeuntes lacrimis cum multis.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thomas Biggs, Poetics of the First Punic War (2020), Introduction, p. 11:
“Blande et docte percontat, Aenea[s] quo pacto Troiam urbem liquisset.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dein pollens sagittis inclutus arquitenens sanctusque Delphis prognatus Pythius Apollo.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Transit Melitam Romanus insulam integram; urit populatur vast at, rem hostium concinnat.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) first seen 257 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: C. Atilius Regulus overran Malta in 257 BC
“Sin illos deserant fortissimos virorum magnum stuprum populo fieri per gentes.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Seseque i perire mavolunt ibidem quam cum stupro redire ad suos popularis.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Semper pluris feci ego potioremque habui libertatem [multo] quam pecuniam.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: W. F. H. King, Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 2388:
“Quasi pila in choro ludens datatim dat se et communem facit. Alii adnutat, alii adnictat, alium amat alium tenet. Alibi manus est occupata, alii pervellit pedem; anulum dat alii spectandum, a labris alium invoeat, cum alio cantat, at tamen alii suo dat digito litteras.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: , "The Girl from Tarentum", I Am a Roman (1934):
“Cedo qui vestram rem publicam tantam amisistis tam cito? Proveniebant oratores novi, stulti adulescentuli.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Desubito famam tollunt si quam solam videre in via.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Laetus sum laudari me abs te, pater, a laudato viro.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: W. F. H. King, Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 1235:
“Oderunt di homines iniuros.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Odi summussos; proinde aperte dice quid sit quod times.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pati necesse est mult a mortales mala.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Quae ego in theatro hic meis probavi plausibus Ea non audere quemquam regem rumpere, quanto libertatem hanc hic superat servitus.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: W. Y. Sellar, The Roman Poets of the Republic, 3rd ed. (1905), ch. 3, p. 57: note 20:
“Vos qui regalis corporis custodias agitatis, ite actutum in frundiferos locos ingenio arbusta ubi nata sunt non obsitu.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sander M. Goldberg, Epic in Republican Rome (1995), p. 86:
“Si quidem vis loqui, non perdocere multa longe promicando oratio est.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Immortales mortales si foret fas flere flerent divae Camenae Naevium poetam. Itaque postquam est Orchi traditus thesauro, obliti sunt Romae loquier lingua latina.”
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Recorded in: Geoffrey Johnson, in L. R. Lind, ed. Latin Poetry in Verse Translation (1957), p. 5:
“Naevius in manibus non est et mentibus haeret paene recens? adeo sanctum est vetus emne poema.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Epigramma Naevi plenum superbiae Campanae, quod testimonium esse iustum potuisset, nisi ab ipso dictum esset.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nævius was the first poet who really deserves the name of Roman.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: R. W. Browne, A History of Roman Classical Literature (1853), p. 81
“Nævius seems to have been the last of the ancient line of poets. Ennius was the founder of a new dynasty. Nævius celebrated the First Punic War in Saturnian verse, the old national verse of Italy. Ennius sang the Second Punic War in numbers borrowed from the Iliad. The elder poet, in the epitaph which he wrote for himself, and which is a fine specimen of the early Roman diction and versification, plaintively boasted that the Latin language had died with him. Thus what to Horace appeared to be the first faint dawn of Roman literature, appeared to Nævius to be its hopeless setting. In truth, one literature was setting, and another dawning.”
Gnaeus Naevius (275–201 BC) said by 201 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lord Macaulay, (1842), Preface