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Said between 100 and 1 BC
“Miseranda vita, qui se metui, quam amari malunt.”
Cornelius Nepos (100–25 BC) said by 25 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)
“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…
“「武父子亡功德，皆為陛下所成就，位列將，爵通侯，兄弟親近，常願肝腦塗地。今得殺身自效，雖蒙斧鉞湯鑊，誠甘樂之。臣事君，猶子事父也。子為父死亡所恨。願勿復再言。」”
蘇武 (140–60 BC) said by 60 BC at the latest wikiquote:zh, 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
“为何不像酒足饭饱的宾客离开人生宴席？”
卢克莱修 (94–55 BC) said by 55 BC at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Caelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt.”
Horace (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Quintus Horatius Flaccus (la)
“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)
“Continual dropping wears away a stone.”
Lucretius (94–55 BC) said by 55 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“我宁可被人看成傻子与呆子，”
贺拉斯 (65–8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nec tumulum curo. Sepelit natura relictos.”
Gaius Maecenas (died 8 BC) said by 8 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cp. Webster, "Cornelia's Song" in The White Devil (1612), V, iv
“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
“我來到，我看見，我征服。”
尤利烏斯·凱撒 (100–44 BC) said by 44 BC at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“我们是法律的仆人，以便我们可以获得自由。”
西塞羅 (107–43 BC) said by 43 BC at the latest wikiquote:zh, 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, …
“I forgive...the many for the sake of the few, the living for the dead.”
Sulla (138–78 BC) said by 78 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sed abiit in sodalicium sacrilegi Nigidiani.”
Nigidius Figulus (98–45 BC) said by 45 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: See: Federico Santangelo, "Whose Sacrilege? A Note on Sal. 5.14", The Classical World, vol. 104, no. 3 (2011), pp. 333–38
“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:
“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
“我不知道我的羔羊被哪只眼睛慑服了。”
维吉尔 (70–19 BC) said by 19 BC at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nec iurare time: veneris periuria venti inrita per terras et freta summa ferunt. gratia magna Iovi: vetuit Pater ipse valere, iurasset cupide quidquid ineptus amor.”
Tibullus (51–16 BC) said by 16 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.”
Vitruvius (80–15 BC) said by 15 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