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Said between 200 and 101 BC
“Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.”
Publilius Syrus (101–101 BC) said by 101 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Maxim 1075
“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
“Patria est, ubicumque est bene.”
Pacuvius (220–130 BC) said by 130 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ut Romanus populus victus vei, superatus proeliis saepe est multis, bello vero numquam, in quo sunt omnia.”
Gaius Lucilius (180–102 BC) said by 102 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fragment of Book XXVI, quoted by Nonius, 437, 14; Warmington (1935), p. 229
“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.
“Virum mihi, Camena, insece versutum, ...”
Livius Andronicus (280–200 BC) said by 200 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
“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)
“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
“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…
“The pursuits of commerce would be as admirable as they are profitable if they were not subject to so great risks: and so, likewise, of banking, if it was always honestly conducted. For our ancestors considered, and so ordained in their laws, that, while the thief should be cast in double damages, the usurer should make four-fold restitution.”
Cato the Elder (234–149 BC) said by 149 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ego verum amo, verum vol mihi dici : mendacem odi.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 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
“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
“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
“Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?”
Terence (185–159 BC) said by 159 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
“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
“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)