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Said between 100 and 1 BC

• “All men should not covet all things.”

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

• “Weit offene Ohren vergessen leicht, was ihnen anvertraut wurde." - Epistulae 1,18,70”

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

• “At scelus incesto Zmyrnae crescebat in alvo.”

  Helvius Cinna (85–44 BC) said by 44 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Zmyrna, quoted by , I, 268; Norbert Gutterman, A Book of Latin Quotations (1966), p. 107

• “Si quos Orbilius ferula scuticaque cecidit.”

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

  Recorded in: Quoted by Suetonius, On Grammarians, 9. On the harsh schoolmaster , whom Horace (Epistles, ii) likewise labels a plagosus ('flogger'). Translated by J. C. Rolfe, LCL 38 (1914)

• “Marmoreo Licinus tumulo jacet, at Cato parvo, Pompeius nullo. Quis putet esse deos? Saxa premunt Licinum, levat altum Fama Catonem, Pompeium tituli. Credimus esse deos.”

  Varro Atacinus (82–36 BC) said by 36 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The first two lines are an epigram from the Latin Anthology in reference to the magnificent tomb of one Licinus, the slave and steward of Julius Caesar. The two lines in answer are of more recent origin. — H. T. Riley, …

• “Die Würfel sind gefallen" oder "Der Würfel ist gefallen." - Gemäß Sueton, Divus Iulius, 33, bei Überschreitung des Rubikon, mit der Caesar den Bürgerkrieg entfesselte. Zu verstehen als: "Nun wird es sich entscheiden".”

  Gaius Julius Caesar (100–44 BC) said by 44 BC at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Die Augen sind die Lenker in der Liebe." - Elegien Buch 2, XV 12”

  Properz (47–16 BC) said by 16 BC at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Autumn wind rises, white clouds fly. Grass and trees wither; geese go south.”

  Emperor Wu of Han (156–87 BC) first seen 127 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Autumn Wind 127 BC (translated by Arthur Waley), Dictionary of Quotations, Chambers: Edinburgh, U.K, 2005, p. 930

• “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

• “Nay, men, if any of you had heeded what I was ever foretelling and advising, ye would now neither be fearing a single man nor putting your hopes in a single man.”

  Cato the Younger (95–46 BC) said by 46 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Bernadotte Perrin, ed. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. 8, LCL 100 (1919), pp. 247, 361

• “Ἀχήεις τέττιξ, δροσεραῖς σταγόνεσσι μεθυσθείς, ἀγρονόμαν μέλπεις μοῦσαν ἐρημολάλον ἄκρα δ᾽ ἐφεζόμενος πετάλοις, πριονώδεσι κώλοις αἰθίοπι κλάζεις χρωτὶ μέλισμα λύρας. ἀλλά, φίλος, φθέγγου τι νέον δενδρώδεσι Νύμφαις παίγνιον, ἀντῳδὸν Πανὶ κρέκων κέλαδον, ὄφρα φυγὼν τὸν Ἔρωτα, μεσημβρινὸν ὕπνον ἀγρεύσω ἐνθάδ᾽ ὑπὸ σκιερᾷ κεκλιμένος πλατάνῳ.”

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

  Recorded in: ("To the Tree-Locust") C. A. Elton, Specimens of the Classical Poets, i (1814), p. 414.

• “Den Schlaf nimm als das Bild des Todes." - Lateinisches Sprichwort, Tusculanae Disputationes (Tuskulanische Gespräche) I, XXXVIII, 92”

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

• “Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum. grata superveniet, quae non sperabitur hora.”

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

• “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

• “Usque adeone mori miserum est?”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Von ganzem Herzen" - De Rerum Natura III, 57”

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

• “Audendum est: fortes adiuvat ipsa Venus.”

  Tibullus (51–16 BC) said by 16 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth of what I have written on the fixing of the quarters from which the different winds blow.”

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

• “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

• “Yes, indeed, we must fly, but not with our feet, but with our hands..”

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

• “Das leichte Rad des Schicksals dreht sich in schnellen Kreisen." - Elegien I, V, 70”

  Tibull (51–16 BC) said by 16 BC at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In einem kurzen Zeitraum hat dieser König große Taten verrichtet und durch Klugheit und Tapferkeit mehr vollbracht, als alle Könige von Anfang an, welche die Geschichte kennt." - Über Alexander den Großen, 17,1ff.”

  Diodor (90–20 BC) said by 20 BC at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Saepius illa religio peperit scelerosa atque impia facta.”

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