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Said between 200 and 101 BC
“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
“Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.”
Cato the Elder (234–149 BC) said by 149 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Adulescens, tam etsi properas te hoc saxum rogat Ut sese aspicias, deinde quod scriptum est legas. Hic sunt poetae Pacuvi Marci sita Ossa. Hoc volebam nescius ne esses. Vale.”
Pacuvius (220–130 BC) said by 130 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Other translations: Geoffrey Johnson, "His Own Epitaph" in L. R. Lind, ed., Latin Poetry in Verse Translation (1957), p. 6
“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
“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
“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)
“In civitate fiunt facinora capitalia: Nam ab amico amante argentum accipere meretrix noenu volt.”
Caecilius Statius (219–168 BC) said by 168 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“ああ、立派な男というのはこうあるべきものだなあ。”
劉邦 (256–195 BC) said by 195 BC at the latest wikiquote:ja, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Terram corpus quae dederit, ipsam capere neque dispendi facere hilum.”
Ennius (239–169 BC) said by 169 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“事実を把握せよ、言葉は続いてくる。”
マルクス・ポルキウス・カト・ケンソリウス (234–149 BC) said by 149 BC at the latest wikiquote:ja, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing is so peculiar to wisdom as truth.”
Quintus Sextius (51–101 BC) said by 101 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.
“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
“You are seeking a knot in a bulrush.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Menæchmi, Act II, sc. 1, line 22; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). A proverbial expression implying a desire to create doubts and difficulties where there really were none. It occurs in Teren…
“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
“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)
“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
“Nunc vero a mani ad noctem festo atque profesto totus item pariterque die populusque patresque iactare indu foro se omnes, decedere nusquam; uni se atque eidem studio omnes dedere et arti— verba dare ut caute possint, pugnare dolose, blanditia certare, bonum simulare virum se, insidias facere ut si hostes sint omnibus omnes.”
Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Unassigned Fragment, quoted by Lactantius, Divine Institutes, V, 9, 20; Warmington (1935), p. 373
“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
“(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