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Said between 200 and 101 BC
“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
“(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
“Come to me, all you that need instruction, and learn in my school.| Why do you admit that you are ignorant and do nothing about it? | Here is what I say: It costs nothing to be wise.”
Ben Sira (301–151 BC) said by 151 BC at the latest wikiquote, 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
“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
“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
“Catonis modo, Galle, Tusculanum Tota creditor urbe venditabat. Mirati sumus unicum magistrum, Summum grammaticum, optumum poetam Omnes solvere posse quaestiones, Unum deficere expedire nomen: En cor Zenodoti, en iecur Cratetis!”
Marcus Furius Bibaculus (103–101 BC) said by 101 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome.”
Hannibal (247–183 BC) first seen 217 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Spoken to Italian soldiers of Rome captured at the Battle of Lake Trasimene (24 June 217 BC) as quoted in Hannibal : One Man Against Rome (1958) by Harold Lamb, p. 119.
“Neither armies nor treasure form the bulwarks of a throne, but friends; these you can neither acquire by force of arms nor buy with gold; it is by devotion and loyalty that they are won.”
Micipsa (201–118 BC) said by 118 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Bellum Jugurthinum by Sallust, section 10, as translated and printed in the volume of the Loeb Classical Library, Sallust, first published in 1921, and last revised in 1931.
“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
“This is a sworn treaty made between us, Hannibal … and Xenophanes the Athenian ... in the presence of all the gods who possess Macedonia and the rest of Greece.”
Polybius (200–120 BC) said by 120 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 9.4 (tr. W. R. Paton, 1923)
“[V]irtus praemium est optimum ; virtus omnibus remus anteit profecto : libertas salus vita res et parentes, patria et prognati tutantur, servantur : virtus omnia in sese habet, omnia adsunt bona quem penest virtus.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nihil tam incertum nec tam inaestimabile est quam animi multitudinis.”
Philip V of Macedon (238–179 BC) said by 179 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Evan T. Sage, tr., Livy in Fourteen Volumes, IX (1935), p. 101
Also quoted by: Titus Livius Patavinus (la)
“Consider lost all the time in which you do not think of divinity.”
Quintus Sextius (51–101 BC) said by 101 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is the duty of all persons, when affairs are the most prosperous, then in especial to reflect within themselves in what way they are to endure adversity.”
Terence (185–159 BC) said by 159 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those who commit private theft pass their lives in confinement and fetters; plunderers of the public, in gold and purple.”
Cato the Elder (234–149 BC) said by 149 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: English translation by John C. Rolfe,(1859-1943)
“Quo fit ut omnis Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella Vita senis.”
Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Horace, Satires, II, 1, 32 (Conington); Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 2353A
“E. H. Warmington, Remains of Old Latin I: Ennius and Caecilius, LCL 294 (1935)”
Caecilius Statius (219–168 BC) said by 168 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur.”
Ennius (239–169 BC) said by 169 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lepus tute es; et pulpamentum quaeris!”
Livius Andronicus (280–200 BC) said by 200 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 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