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• “Tene magis salvum populus velit an populum tu? servet in ambiguo, qui consulit et tibi et Urbi, Iuppiter.”

  Lucius Varius Rufus (74–14 BC) said by 14 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: From Panegyricus Augusti, quoted by Horace, Epistles, I, xvi, 27; , Satires, Epistles and Ars Poëtica (1869); see also: Norbert Guterman, A Book of Latin Quotations (1966), p. 118

• “Cur non ut plenus vitae conviva recedis aequo animoque capis securam, stulte, quietem?”

  Lucretius (94–55 BC) said by 55 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “My salad days, When I was green in judgment, cold in blood, To say as I said then!”

  Cleopatra (69–30 BC) said by 30 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Omnium autem rerum nec aptius est quicquam ad opes tuendas ac tenendas quam diligi nec alienius quam timeri.”

  Cicero (107–43 BC) said by 43 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Magnos homines virtute metimur, non fortuna.”

  Cornelius Nepos (100–25 BC) said by 25 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Saepius in libro numeratur Persius uno Quam levis in tota Marsus Amazonide.”

  Domitius Marsus (51–18 BC) said by 18 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Martial, iv, 29, 7. On the epic poem Amazonis. Translated by Walter C. A. Ker, LCL 94 (1919)

• “He ought to have worked at the oar before steering the vessel.”

  Sulla (138–78 BC) said by 78 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Upon being handed the head of his enemy Gaius Marius the Younger; in William Smith, ed., A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1873), "Marius (II)". Variant: "First you must learn to pull an oar, only…

• “لست آسفاً إلا لأنني لا أملك إلا حياة واحدة أضحى بها في سبيل الوطن.”

  شيشرون (107–43 BC) said by 43 BC at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Farewell, good Strato. — Caesar now be still: I kill'd not thee with half so good a will.”

  Marcus Junius Brutus (85–42 BC) said by 42 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “To do harm is proper of the evil spirits; to do good without taking risks is proper of the ordinary spirits; the man of heart never ever deflects from what is fair and honest, never looking to rewards or to threats.”

  Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus (152–91 BC) said by 91 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “余嘗西至空峒，北過涿鹿，東漸於海，南浮江淮矣，至長老皆各往往稱黃帝、堯、舜之處，風教固殊焉，總之不離古文者近是。”

  Sima Qian (145–86 BC) said by 86 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “ἦ λαθόμεσθ᾿ ἄρα πάντες, ὅτι θνατοὶ γενόμεσθα, χὡς βραχὺν ἐκ Μοίρας λάχομες χρόνον.”

  Bion of Smyrna (120–57 BC) said by 57 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Frg. 8.13–14 (tr. T. B. Harbottle, 1897)

• “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…

• “Some springs are acid, as at Lyncestus and in Italy in the Velian country, at Teano in Campania, and in many other places. These when used in drinks have the power of breaking up stones in the bladder, which form in the human body.”

  Vitruvius (80–15 BC) said by 15 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “... Siquid tamen olim scripseris, in Maeci descendat iudicis auris et patris et nostras, nonumque prematur in annum membranis intus positis; delere licebit quod non edideris; nescit uox missa reuerti.”

  Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.”

  Sallust (86–35 BC) said by 35 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Οὐκέτι παφλάζοντα διαΐσσων βυθὸν ἅλμης δελφίς, πτοιήσεις εἰναλίων ἀγέλας, οὐδὲ πολυτρήτοιο μέλος καλάμοιο χορεύων ὑγρὸν ἀναρρίψεις ἅλμα παρὰ σκαφίσιν οὐδὲ σὺ γ᾽, ἀφρηστά, Νηρηίδας ὡς πρὶν ἀείρων νώτοις πορθμεύσεις Τηθύος εἰς πέρατα. ἦ γὰρ ἴσον; πρηῶνι Μαλείης ὡς ἐκυκήθη, κῦμα πολυψάμμους ὦσέ σ᾿ ἐπὶ ψαμάθους.”

  Aulus Licinius Archias (121–61 BC) said by 61 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Anthologia Palatina, vii, 214; "A Stranded Dolphin", as translated by A. J. Butler, Amaranth and Asphodel (1922), p. 46

• “Ἔγχει, καὶ πάλιν εἰπέ, πάλιν, πάλιν “Ἡλιοδώρας” εἰπέ, σὺν ἀκρήτῳ τὸ γλυκὺ μίσγ᾽ ὄνομα: καί μοι τὸν βρεχθέντα μύροις καὶ χθιζὸν ἐόντα, μναμόσυνον κείνας ἀμφιτίθει στέφανον. δακρύει φιλέραστον ἰδοὺ ῥόδον, οὕνεκα κείναν ἄλλοθι, κοὐ κόλποις ἁμετέροις ἐσορᾷ.”

  Meleager of Gadara (151–51 BC) said by 51 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ("The End of the Feast") Thomas Moore, Epistles, Odes, &c. (1806), p. 69.

• “Go and get accurate information about the child. As soon as you have found him, report to me, so that I too may go & honor him.”

  Herod the Great (74–4 BC) said by 4 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Νυκτερινή, δίκερως, φιλοπάννυχε, φαῖνε, Σελήνη, φαῖνε, δι᾽ εὐτρήτων βαλλομένη θυρίδων αὔγαζε χρυσέην Καλλίστιον ἐς τὰ φιλεύντων ἔργα κατοπτεύειν οὐ φθόνος ἀθανάτῃ. ὀλβίζεις καὶ τήνδε καὶ ἡμέας, οἶδα, Σελήνη: καὶ γὰρ σὴν ψυχὴν ἔφλεγεν Ἐνδυμίων.”

  Philodemus of Gadara (110–35 BC) said by 35 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: J. A. Symonds Jr., Studies of the Greek Poets (1873), p. 380:

• “Postremo nemo aegrotus quidquam somniat tam infandum, quod non aliquis dicat philosophus.”

  Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC) said by 27 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Eumenides, fragment 6, from Saturae Menippeae; translation from J. Wight Duff Roman Satire: Its Outlook on Social Life (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1964) p. 90.

• “Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.”

  Catullus (84–54 BC) said by 54 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.”

  Catiline (108–62 BC) first seen 86 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted by Sallust (86 BC – c. 35 BC) in Catiline's War, Book XX, pt. 4 (trans. J. C. Rolfe)

  Also quoted by: Gaius Sallustius Crispus (la)