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Said between 200 and 101 BC
“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
“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
“Dictum factumque facit frux.”
Ennius (239–169 BC) said by 169 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vivite lurcones, comedones, vivite ventris!”
Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fragment of Book II, quoted by Nonius, 10, 27; Warmington (1935), p. 25
“In all human affairs, and especially in those that relate to war, ... leave always some room to fortune, and to accidents which cannot be foreseen.”
Polybius (200–120 BC) said by 120 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1.4 (tr. James Hampton, 1762)
“The valiant profit more Their country, than the finest cleverest speakers.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 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
“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
“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
“H. W. Garrod, The Oxford Book of Latin Verse (1912), nos. 52–53”
Marcus Furius Bibaculus (103–101 BC) said by 101 BC at the latest wikiquote, 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
“Whosoever is zealous of the law, and maintaineth the covenant, let him follow me!”
Mattathias (201–166 BC) said by 166 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Society in shipwreck is a comfort to all.”
Publilius Syrus (101–101 BC) said by 101 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Publius Syrus
“There are vicissitudes in all things.”
Terence (185–159 BC) said by 159 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
“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.
“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
“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.