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Said between 100 and 1 BC

• “I have Immortal longings in me.”

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

  Also quoted by: William Shakespeare

• “Salus populi suprema lex esto.”

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

• “A single day among the learned lasts longer than the longest life of the ignorant.”

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

• “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

• “There are three departments of architecture: the art of building, the making of time-pieces, and the construction of machinery.”

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

• “Neque assueto mutet amore torum.”

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

• “How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?”

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

• “Nigidius Figulus, Pythagoricus et magus, in exilio moritur.”

  Nigidius Figulus (98–45 BC) first seen 45 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Jerome, Chronicon, 1972 = 45 BC (Tr. Pearse et al.)

• “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

• “Отцу семейства пристойнее продавать, а не покупать.”

  Катон Младший (95–46 BC) said by 46 BC at the latest wikiquote:ru, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Every seat in the theatre was taken when Philip appeared wearing a white cloak, and by his express orders his bodyguard held away from him and followed only at a distance, since he wanted to show publicly that he was protected by the goodwill of all the Greeks, and had no need of a guard of spearmen.”

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

  Recorded in: 16.93.1, translated by C. Bradford Welles, LCL 422 (1963), p. 95

• “Вы ничего не понимаете, если не видите, что в этом мальчишке - много Мариев (о Гае Юлии Цезаре; Плутарх, Цезарь, 1, похожую фразу вкладывает в уста Суллы Аппиан, Гражданские войны, I, 104)”

  Луций Корнелий Сулла (138–78 BC) said by 78 BC at the latest wikiquote:ru, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “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)

• “Nunc animis opus, Aenea, nunc pectore firmo.”

  Virgil (70–19 BC) said by 19 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

• “Maecenas atavis edite regibus, o et praesidium et dulce decus meum.”

  Gaius Maecenas (died 8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Porro, Quirites, libertatem perdimus.”

  Decimus Laberius (106–43 BC) said by 43 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

• “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, …

• “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

• “Ἁ φίλερως χαροποῖς Ἀσκληπιὰς οἷα γαλήνης ὄμμασι συμπείθει πάντας ἐρωτοπλοεῖν.”

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

  Recorded in: ("Love’s Mariners") W. G. Headlam, A Book of Greek Verse (1907), pp. 226-7.

• “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…

• “μηκέτι πορφυρέοις ἐνὶ φάρεσι Κύπρι κάθευδε· ἔγρεο δειλαία κυανόστολε καὶ πλατάγησον στήθεα καὶ λέγε πᾶσιν· ἀπώλετο καλὸς Ἄδωνις.”

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

  Recorded in: Lines 3–5 (tr. J. M. Edmonds, 1912)