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Petronius
19 quotes
“Et ideo ego adulescentulos existimo in scholis stultissimos fieri, quia nihil ex his, quae in usu habemus.”
Petronius (27–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec. 1, translated by "Sebastian Melmoth", The Satyricon of Petronius (Paris: Charles Carrington, 1902)
“Primi omnium eloquentiam perdidistis. Levibus enim atque inanibus sonis ludibria quaedam excitando, effecistis ut corpus orationis enervaretur et caderet.”
Petronius (27–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec. 2, translated by "Sebastian Melmoth" (1902)
“Nondum umbraticus doctor ingenia deleverat.”
Petronius (27–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec. 2, translated by "Sebastian Melmoth" (1902)
“Grandis et, ut ita dicam, pudica oratio non est maculosa nec turgida, sed naturali pulchritudine exsurgit.”
Petronius (27–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec. 2, translated by "Sebastian Melmoth" (1902)
“Nuper ventosa istaec et enormis loquacitas Athenas ex Asia commigravit animosque iuvenum ad magna surgentes veluti pestilenti quodam sidere adflavit, semelque corrupta regula eloquentia stetit et obmutuit.”
Petronius (27–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec. 2, translated by "Sebastian Melmoth" (1902)
“Nihil nimirum in his exercitationibus doctores peccant qui necesse habent cum insanientibus furere. Nam nisi dixerint quae adulescentuli probent, ut ait Cicero, ‘soli in scolis relinquentur’. Sicut ficti adulatores cum cenas divitum captant, nihil prius meditantur quam id quod putant gratissimum auditoribus fore—nec enim aliter impetrabunt quod petunt, nisi quasdam insidias auribus fecerint—sic eloquentiae magister, nisi tanquam piscator eam imposuerit hamis escam, quam scierit appetituros esse pisciculos, sine spe praedae morabitur in scopulo.”
Petronius (27–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec. 3, translated by "Sebastian Melmoth" (1902)
“Canis ingens, catena vinctus, in pariete erat pictus superque quadrata littera scriptum 'Cave canem.'”
Petronius (27–66) first seen 753 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec. 29, translated by J. J. Pollitt, The Art of Rome, c. 753 BC–337 AD: Sources and Documents (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966) p. 147
“Eheu nos miseros, quam totus homuncio nil est! Sic erimus cuncti, postquam nos auferet Orcus. Ergo vivamus, dum licet esse bene.”
Petronius (27–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec. 34, translated by "Sebastian Melmoth" (1902)
“Abiit ad plures.”
Petronius (27–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec. 42 (i.e. he has died), reported in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 2nd ed. (1953) p. 378
“Nunquam autem recte faciet, qui cito credit, utique homo negotians.”
Petronius (27–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec. 43, translated by Michael Heseltine (1913)
“Manus manum lavat.”
Petronius (27–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec. 45, translated by Harry Thurston Peck, Trimalchio's Dinner (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co, 1913)
“Litterae thesaurum est.”
Petronius (27–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec. 46, translated by Michael Heseltine, Petronius · Seneca, 'Apocolocyntosis', Loeb (1913)
“Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: ἀποθανεῖν θέλω.”
Petronius (27–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec. 48, translated by Richard Aldington, Ezra Pound & T. S. Eliot (New York: Oriole Editions, 1970) p. 28. Original Latin and Greek quoted by T. S. Eliot as epigraph to The Waste Land (1922). The reference is to the my…
“Qui non valet lotium suum.”
Petronius (27–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec. 57, translated by Michael Heseltine (1913)
“Qualis dominus talis est servus.”
Petronius (27–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec. 58, translated by Michael Heseltine (1913)
“Vile est quod licet.”
Petronius (27–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec 93, reported in W. F. H. King, Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904) p. 222, no. 1725
“Raram fecit mixturam cum sapientia forma.”
Petronius (27–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec. 94, reported in C. T. Ramage, Great Thoughts from Latin Authors, 3rd ed. (New York: John B. Alden, 1884) p. 409
“Horatii curiosa felicitas.”
Petronius (27–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sec. 118, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 14th ed. (1968) p. 134
“Necesse est cum insanientibus furere, nisi solus relinqueris.”
Petronius (27–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in W. Gurney Benham, ed., A Book of Quotations, Proverbs and Household Words (1914), p. 601