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Said between 200 and 101 BC
“Dictum factumque facit frux.”
Ennius (239–169 BC) said by 169 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vamos aliviar o povo romano de seus cuidados contínuos, desde que pensem que aguardam a morte de um homem velho".”
Aníbal (247–183 BC) said by 183 BC at the latest wikiquote:pt, 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
“Grande é a força do hábito.”
Públio Siro (101–101 BC) said by 101 BC at the latest wikiquote:pt, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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
“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)
“O que não se espera acontece com mais freqüência do que o que se espera.”
Plauto (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote:pt, 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
“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
“How many things, both just and unjust, are sanctioned by custom!”
Terence (185–159 BC) said by 159 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
“Ainda que possas vencer, cede de vez em quando ao amigo;/ Frequentemente as doces amizades são conservadas pela gentileza.”
Catão, o Velho (234–149 BC) said by 149 BC at the latest wikiquote:pt, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Placere occepit graviter, post quam emortuast.”
Caecilius Statius (219–168 BC) said by 168 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
“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.
“Ah there is one thing about them more wonderful than their numbers … in all that vast number there is not one man called Gisgo.”
Hannibal (247–183 BC) first seen 216 BC wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Spoken as a jest to one of his officers named Gisgo, who had remarked on the numbers of Roman forces against them before the Battle of Cannae (2 August 216 BC), as quoted in A History of Rome (1855), by Henry George Lid…
“All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.”
Cato the Elder (234–149 BC) said by 149 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In bitter criticism of the prevalent domination of women (The Classical weekly, Vol. 25–26, 1932, p. 273).
“(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
“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
“Each man reaps on his own farm.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Act III, sc. 2, line 112; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“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