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• “Divina Natura dedit agros, ars humana ædificavit urbes.”

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

  Recorded in: W. D. Hooper & H. B. Ash, tr., On Agriculture (Harvard University Press, 1993). Bk. 3, ch. 1

• “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

• “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)

• “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.

• “Per caputque pedesque.”

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

• “זאת תהיה חובתי, לא לעבור על כך בשקט אלא להגן על מולדתי ולמות בשם החירות." ~ תגובתו לאחר שנאמר לו שקיסר יכתיר את עצמו למלך”

  מרקוס יוניוס ברוטוס (85–42 BC) said by 42 BC at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes.”

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

• “Then, too, the columns at the corners should be made thicker than the others by a fiftieth of their own diameter, because they are sharply outlined by the unobstructed air around them, and seem to the beholder more slender than they are.”

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

• “Semper honos nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt.”

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

• “Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt.”

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

• “Necesse est multos timeat quem multi timent.”

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

• “Nequaquam nobis divinitus esse paratam naturam rerum; tanta stat praedita culpa.”

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

• “הקמתי מצבת זיכרון... נישאה יותר מן הפירמידות המלכותיות.”

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

• “οὐδ᾿ ἵνα νυκτὸς ὁδοιπορέοντας ἐνοχλέω, ἀλλ᾿ ἐράω· καλὸν δέ τ᾿ ἐρασσαμένῳ συναρέσθαι.”

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

  Recorded in: Frg. 11.7–8 (tr. J. M. Edmonds, 1912)

• “איזה מין חסד זה – הימנעות מביצוע פשע?" ~ הנאום הפיליפי השני נגד מרקוס אנטוניוס”

  מרקוס טוליוס קיקרו (107–43 BC) said by 43 BC at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Age et his vocabulis esse deos facimus quibus a nobis nominantur? At primum, quot hominum linguae, tot nomina deorum. Non enim, ut tu Velleius, quocumque veneris, sic idem in Italia, idem in Africa, idem in Hispania.”

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

• “Norbert Gutterman, A Book of Latin Quotations (1966), pp. 84–7”

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

• “Bear in mind, that if through toil you accomplish a good deed, that toil will quickly pass from you, the good deed will not leave you so long as you live; but if through pleasure you do anything dishonourable, the pleasure will quickly pass away, that dishonourable act will remain with you for ever.”

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

  Recorded in: John C. Rolfe, ed. The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, Vol. 3, LCL 212 (1928), p. 131

• “He [King Philip] wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so planned brilliant musical contests and lavish banquets for his friends and guests. Out of all Greece he summoned his personal guest-friends and ordered the members of his court to bring along as many as they could of their acquaintances from abroad.”

  Diodorus Siculus (90–20 BC) said by 20 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: 16.91.5-6, translated by C. Bradford Welles, LCL 422 (1963), p. 91

• “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:

• “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)

• “העזת לגולל את כל קורות הימים בשלושה כרכים מלומדים.”

  גאיוס ולריוס קאטולוס (84–54 BC) said by 54 BC at the latest wikiquote:he, 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