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• “«Lícito es a la hermosura pecar una vez contra los dioses sin hacerse acreedora al castigo». [Aequum est impune licere numina formosis laedere vestra semel].”

  Tibulo (51–16 BC) said by 16 BC at the latest wikiquote:es, 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

• “Pozzolana.—There is... a kind of powder which from natural causes produces astonishing results. It is found in the neighborhood of Baiae and in the country belonging to the towns round about Mt. Vesuvius. This substance when mixed with lime and rubble not only lends strength to buildings of other kinds, but even when piers of it are constructed in the sea, they set hard under water.”

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

• “«Llámanse y son tiranos quienes poseen el poder a perpetuidad en una nación que fue libre».”

  Cornelio Nepote (100–25 BC) said by 25 BC at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Eternity was in our lips and eyes.”

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

• “There are never any occasions when you need think yourself safe because you wield the weapons of Fortune; fight with your own! Fortune does not furnish arms against herself; hence men equipped against their foes are unarmed against Fortune herself.”

  Posidonius (135–51 BC) said by 51 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Lucentes, mea vita, nec smaragdos, beryllos neque, Flacce mi, nitentes percandida margarita quaero nec quos Tunnica lima perpolivit anellos nec iaspios lapillos.”

  Gaius Maecenas (died 8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, 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

• “«No necesito la grandeza de Roma, tengo mi propio imperio en Egipto».”

  Cleopatra (69–30 BC) said by 30 BC at the latest wikiquote:es, 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)

• “«Afortunado es aquel que haya podido entender las causas de las cosas». [Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causa].”

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

• “«Con el ruido de la guerra no oigo el de las leyes».”

  Mario (158–86 BC) said by 86 BC at the latest wikiquote:es, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “«El mundo es un objeto simbólico».”

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

• “Gallia omni pacata est.”

  Julius Caesar (100–44 BC) first seen 52 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Written in a letter with which Caesar informed the Roman Senate of his victory over Vercingetorix in 52 BC

• “Te matutinus flentem conspexit Eous, et flentem paulo vidit post Hesperus idem.”

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

  Recorded in: Zmyrna, quoted by Servius, ad Vergili Georgica, I, 288 (, 35); J. C. Collins, Illustrations of Tennyson (1891), p. 27; J. C. Carr (Cornhill Magazine, vol. 41. p. 47) compares Alfred Tennyson, "Mariana", 13:Her tears fel…

• “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…

• “κρίνειν οὐκ ἐπέοικε θεήια ἔργα βροτοῖσι.”

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

  Recorded in: Frg. 2.9 (tr. T. B. Harbottle, 1897

• “Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.”

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

• “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, …

• “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

• “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.

• “Porro, Quirites, libertatem perdimus.”

  Decimus Laberius (106–43 BC) said by 43 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Quis fuit, horrendos primus qui protulit enses? quam ferus et vere ferreus ille fuit!”

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

• “Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!”

  Pompey (106–48 BC) said by 48 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source