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Said between 200 and 101 BC
“O flexanima atque omnium regina rerum oratio!”
Pacuvius (220–130 BC) said by 130 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(Last words) My children, be courageous and grow strong in the law, for by it you will gain honour.”
Mattathias (201–166 BC) said by 166 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“يناسب الشاب كثيرا أن يكون محترما.”
بلاوتوس (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote:ar, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The two best-known cases, involving Pushyamitra Shunga and Shashank, cannot withstand historical criticism. The non-contemporary story (which surfaces more than three centuries after the facts) about Pushyamitra's offering money for the heads of monks is rendered improbable by firm historical facts of his allowing and patronizing monasteries and Buddhist universities in his domains.”
Pushyamitra Shunga (301–148 BC) said by 148 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For what gives my work its peculiar quality, and what is most remarkable in the present age, is this. Fortune has guided almost all the affairs of the world in one direction and has forced them to incline towards one and the same end; a historian should likewise bring before his readers under one synoptical view the operations by which she has accomplished her general purpose.”
Polybius (200–120 BC) said by 120 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 4.1–2 (tr. W. R. Paton, 1922)
“Then Jonathan said to those with him, “Let us get up now and fight for our lives, for today things have changed considerably from the way they used to be. In front of us the battle awaits; behind us are the waters of the Jordan on one side and marshland and thickets on the other. There is no way out. Cry out to Heaven that you may be saved from our enemies.”
Jonathan Apphus (201–143 BC) said by 143 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“大風起兮雲飛揚， 威加海內兮歸故鄉， 安得猛士兮守四方。”
Emperor Gaozu of Han (256–195 BC) said by 195 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While I was still young, before I went on my travels,”
Ben Sira (301–151 BC) said by 151 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Τοῦτο μὲν, ὦ Φαινέα, καὶ τυφλῷ δῆλον.”
Philip V of Macedon (238–179 BC) first seen 198 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Polybius, 18, 17, 4. Rejoinder of Philip V (of Macedon) to the one-eyed Ætolian commander, Phæneas, in the Second Macedonian War, 198 BC
“Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque.”
Ennius (239–169 BC) said by 169 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Quintus Ennius (la)
“Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.”
Cato the Elder (234–149 BC) said by 149 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You have in yourself some thing similar to God, and therefore use yourself as the temple of God, on account of that which in you resembles God.”
Quintus Sextius (51–101 BC) said by 101 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hi sunt inimici pessumi fronte hilaro corde tristi.”
Caecilius Statius (219–168 BC) said by 168 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He whom the gods favour dies in youth.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have composed a book on the length of the year in which I show that the tropical year contains 365 days plus a fraction of a day which is not exactly 1/4 days as the mathematicians-astronomers suppose, but which is less than 1/4 by about 1/300.”
Hipparchus (190–120 BC) said by 120 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By doing nothing men learn to do ill.”
Publilius Syrus (101–101 BC) said by 101 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Liberemus diuturna cura populum Romanum, quando mortem senis exspectare longum censent. (Latin, not original language)”
Hannibal (247–183 BC) said by 183 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.”
Terence (185–159 BC) said by 159 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Hunc laborem sumas laudem qui tibi ac fructum ferat.”
Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fragment of Book XXVI, quoted by Nonius, 396, 9; Warmington (1935), p. 229
“Ingrata patria, ne ossa quidem mea habes.”
Scipio Africanus (235–183 BC) first seen 183 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Inscription ordered to be placed on his tomb by Scipio Africanus (236–183 BC), at Liternum in Campania, in revenge for the unworthy partisan persecution which embittered his last days.
Also quoted by: Valerius Maximus