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• “Tibi istum ad munimentum mei committo, si recte agam; sin aliter, in me magis.”

  Trajan (53–117) said by 117 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: One day as Trajan was putting a captain of the guards (or a prætorian prefect) in possession of his post, he gave him a drawn sword or dagger, according to the custom, and spoke thus. Related by Aurelius Victor, De Caes…

• “προφυλάσσω δὲ ὑμᾶς ἀπὸ τῶν θηρίων τῶν ἀνθρωπομόρφων.”

  Ignatius of Antioch (35–108) said by 108 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “To speak falsely is the mark of a slave, but the truth is noble.”

  Apollonius of Tyana (15–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Neither walls, theatres, porches, nor senseless equipage, make States; but men who are able to rely upon themselves.”

  Aelius Aristides (117–189) said by 189 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Vol. 1 (ed. Samuel Jebb, 1722), translated by Arthur W. Austin, The Woman and the Queen: A Ballad, and Other Specimens of Verse (Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, 1875) p. 90

• “The mode of death is sadder than death itself.”

  Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Cive Romano per orbem nemo vivit rectius: quippe malim unum Catonem quam trecentos Socratas.”

  Florus (70–140) said by 140 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.”

  Tacitus (55–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “δείξω ὑμῖν νεῦρα φιλοσόφου. ποῖα νεῦρα; ὄρεξιν ἀναπότευκτον, ἔκκλισιν ἀπερίπτωτον, ὁρμὴν καθήκουσαν, πρόθεσιν ἐπιμελῆ, συγκατάθεσιν ἀπρόπτωτον.”

  Epictetus (50–138) said by 138 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Cato instigated the magistrates to punish all offenders, saying that they that did not prevent crimes when they might, encouraged them. Of young men, he liked them that blushed better than those who looked pale.”

  Plutarch (40–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Earth brought thee forth and ocean was thy tomb, Ere yet thou shared’st the mansions of the blest: For a brief space was Pluto’s house thy home. Not conquered by the waves thou sank to rest, O Pamphilus, but would’st thy glory shed O’er all the dwellings of the undying dead.”

  Pamphilus of Alexandria (100–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Lilla Cabot Perry, tr., From the Garden of Hellas (1891), p. 66

• “Every number is at once half the sum of the two on either side of itself...”

  Nicomachus (60–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “τεθόλωται γὰρ τῇ φράσει καὶ τεθορύβηται ταῖς φαντασίαις μᾶλλον ἢ δεδείνωται, κἂν ἕκαστον αὐτῶν πρὸς αὐγὰς ἀνασκοπῇς, ἐκ τοῦ φοβεροῦ κατ᾿ ὀλίγον ὑπονοστεῖ πρὸς τὸ εὐκαταφρόνητον.”

  Longinus (100–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Не дано увидеть те силы, которые позволено только ощущать.”

  Апулей (125–170) said by 170 at the latest wikiquote:ru, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Anna – father-in-law”

  Caiaphas (100–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “(After taking Paul's belt and tying his feet and hands) And as we stayed many days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. When he had come to us, he took Paul’s belt, bound his own hands and feet, and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”

  Agabus (100–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or through pleasure and pain.”

  Ptolemy (100–170) said by 170 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Animula vagula blandula, hospes comesque corporis, quae nunc abibis in loca, pallidula, rigida, nudula, nec ut soles dabis iocos?”

  Hadrian (76–138) said by 138 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Hadrian's Dying Farewell to His Soul", in the Historia Augusta, "Hadrianus", pt. 2, sec. 25, par. 9 (tr. J. W. Duff, 1934)

• “This also is remarkable in India, that all Indians are free, and no Indian at all is a slave. In this the Indians agree with the Lacedaemonians. Yet the Lacedaemonians have Helots for slaves, who perform the duties of slaves; but the Indians have no slaves at all, much less is any Indian a slave.”

  Arrian (89–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, Book VII : Indica, as translated by Edgar Iliff Robson (1929), p. 335

• “The twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying:”

  John of Patmos (50–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “For there is not one single race of men, whether barbarians, or Greeks, or whatever they may be called, nomads, or vagrants, or herdsmen living in tents, among whom prayers and giving of thanks are not offered through the name of the crucified Jesus.”

  Justin Martyr (100–165) said by 165 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Dialogue with Trypho, chapter CXVII. c160AD. In ANF1, that is, Roberts A, Donaldson J and Coxe AC (1885) Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol 1. [ANF1 footnote: "Note this testimony to the ... Church in the second century...."]

• “Порядочная женщина даже разговоры не должна выставлять напоказ, и подавать голос при посторонних должно быть ей так же стыдно, как раздеваться при них, ибо голос выдает и нрав говорящей, и свойства ее души, и настроение.”

  Плутарх (40–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote:ru, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ἡ τὰ ῥόδα, ῥοδόεσσαν ἔχεις χάριν ἀλλὰ τί πωλεῖς; σαυτήν, ἢ τὰ ῥόδα; ἠὲ συναμφότερα;”

  Dionysius the Sophist (50–150) said by 150 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: A. C. Benson, "The Flower-Girl", The Reed of Pan (1922), p. 169: