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Said between 200 and 101 BC
“Bene fácta male locata male facta árbitor”
Quintus Ennius (239–169 BC) said by 169 BC at the latest wikiquote:la, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.”
Cato the Elder (234–149 BC) said by 149 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Conqueri fortunam advorsam, non lamentari decet; id viri est officium, fletus muliebri ingenio additust.”
Pacuvius (220–130 BC) said by 130 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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
“Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 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
“Diem adimere aegritudinem hominibus.”
Terence (185–159 BC) said by 159 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Cicero (misattributed)
“Vobis necesse est fortibus viris esse et, omnibus inter victoriam mortem[q]ue certa desperatione abruptis.”
Hannibal (247–183 BC) said by 183 BC at the latest wikiquote:la, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O curas hominum! O quantum est in rebus inane!”
Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fragment of Book I, quoted by , Satires, I, 1; Warmington (1935), p. 2
“According to Cato the Elder, Scipio Africanus was wont to say that he was never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less lonely than when alone.”
Scipio Africanus (235–183 BC) said by 183 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He dies twice who perishes by his own hand.”
Publilius Syrus (101–101 BC) said by 101 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
“Nullum est iam dictum quod non sit dictum prius”
Publius Terentius Afer (185–159 BC) said by 159 BC at the latest wikiquote:la, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“H. Rushton Fairclough, Horace: Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica, LCL 194 (1926), pp. 118, 200”
Marcus Furius Bibaculus (103–101 BC) said by 101 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The greatest honor which can be paid to God is to know and imitate him.”
Quintus Sextius (51–101 BC) said by 101 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
“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.
“Homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam, Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendat facit; Nihilo minus ipsi lucet, cum illi accenderit.”
Ennius (239–169 BC) said by 169 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
“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
“The oft-repeated allegation that Pushyamitra Sunga offered a reward for the heads of Buddhist monks is a miraculous fable related exclusively in a hostile source and contradicted by the finding of art historians that Pushyamitra was a generous patron of Buddhist institutions.”
Pushyamitra Shunga (301–148 BC) said by 148 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Elst, K. (2002). Who is a Hindu?: Hindu revivalist views of Animism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and other offshoots of Hinduism.