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• “Heinrich Denzinger, Enchiridion Symbolorum, bilingual edition edited by Peter Hünermann, Italian version edited by Angelo Lanzoni and Giovanni Zaccherini, Edb, 2001.”

  Pope Pelagius I (505–561) said by 561 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “α. Οὔνομά μοι. β. Τί δὲ τοῦτο; α. Πατρὶς δέ μοι. β. Ἐς τί δὲ τοῦτο; α. Κλεινοῦ δ᾽ εἰμὶ γένους. β. Εἰ γὰρ ἀφαυροτάτου; α. Ζήσας δ᾽ ἐνδόξως ἔλιπον βίον. β. Εἰ γὰρ ἀδόξως; α. Κεῖμαι δ᾽ ἐνθάδε νῦν. β. Τίς τίνι ταῦτα λέγεις;”

  Paul the Silentiary (520–575) said by 575 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Anthologia Palatina, vii, 307, as translated by William Cowper, in W. Hayley, ed. Life, and Posthumous Writings of W. Cowper, Vol. 2 (1803), "An Epitaph"; "Vanities"; "A Nameless Grave

• “Γραμματικοῦ θυγάτηρ ἔτεκεν φιλότητι μιγεῖσα παιδίον ἀρσενικόν, θηλυκόν, οὐδέτερον.”

  Palladas (400–500) said by 500 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: W. S. Marris, "A Question of Gender", The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation (1938), p. 655:

• “If one is able to become deeply aware of the negative consequences of desires, one will not become involved in them. This is what is meant by renouncing desire.”

  Zhiyi (538–597) said by 597 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “For not by numbers of men, nor by measure of body, but by valor of soul is war to be decided.”

  Belisarius (505–565) said by 565 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: As quoted in 100 Decisive Battles : From Ancient Times to the Present (2001) by Paul K. Davis, p. 93; cited to the records of Procopius, in Procopius, Vol. IV, I, pp. 15-16.

• “Mitis depone colla, Sigamber; adora quod incendisti, incende quod adorasti.”

  Saint Remigius (437–533) said by 533 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Advice to King Clovis (25 December 496) in Gregory of Tours, Historia Francorum, bk. 2, sec. 31 (tr. Ernest Brehaut, 1916). French quoted in Norbert Guterman, A Book of French Quotations (1963), p. vi: "Adore ce que tu …

• “Video, inquam, quae sit vel felicitas vel miseria in ipsis proborum atque improborum meritis constituta.”

  Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480–524) said by 524 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Nec dubium enim est, quod hic primus homo Adam, antequam peccaret, tipum Redemptoris domini praetulisset. Ipsi enim in passionis sopore obdormiens, de latere suo dum aquam cruoremque producit, virginem inmaculatamque eclesiam sibi exhibuit, redemptam sanguine, latice emundatam, non habentem maculam aut rugam, id est limphis ablutam propter maculam, extensam in crucem propter rugam.”

  Gregory of Tours (538–594) said by 594 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Historia Francorum, bk. 1, sec. 1 (tr. Ernest Brehaut, 1916)

• “Interea non cessant uncinata nudorum tela, quibus miserrimi cives de muris tracti solo allidebantur.”

  Gildas (500–570) said by 570 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Gildas here describes post-Roman Britons on Hadrian's Wall defending it against the Scots and Picts below. This bizarre image, familiar to students of British history for generations, is belied by a more recent translat…

• “I was with the Lord In the manger of the ass. I upheld Moses Through the water of Jordan.”

  Taliesin (518–599) said by 599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Mores autem graves in spectaculis quis requirat? ad circum nesciunt convenire Catones. quicquid illic a gaudenti populo dicitur, iniuria non putatur. locus est qui defendit excessum. quorum garrulitas si patienter accipitur, ipsos quoque principes ornare monstratur.”

  Cassiodorus (487–583) said by 583 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Translates to: Add four to 100, multiply by eight, and then add 62,000. By this rule the circumference of a circle with a diameter of 20,000 can be approached. Thus according to the rule ((4 + 100) × 8 + 62000)/20000 = 62832/20000 = 3.1416, which is accurate to five significant figures.”

  Aryabhata (476–550) said by 550 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: In: Arijit Roy The Enigma of Creation and Destruction, Author House, 28 October 2011, p. 27

• “'In all things that come upon me I never desire to run around in quest of human wisdom, but I always act with the small power I have on whatever it is, and at the same time leave the whole thing to God.'”

  Dorotheus of Gaza (510–565) said by 565 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “We have good hopes that God will grant us to restore the authority over the remaining countries which the ancient Romans possessed to the limit of both oceans and lost by subsequent neglect.”

  Justinian I (482–565) said by 565 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Where comes a cow, there follows a woman; and where comes a woman follows trouble.”

  Columba (521–597) said by 597 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Attributed in Seumas MacManus, Heavy Hangs the Golden Grain (1950) Ch. 3

• “Thus the tears flowed down on my breast, remembering days of love; The tears wetted even my sword-belt, so tender was my love.”

  Imru' al-Qais (501–544) said by 544 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Hoc Matthaeus agens hominem generaliter implet; Marcus ut alta fremit uox per deserta leonis; Iura sacerdotii Lucas tenet ore iuuenci; More uolans aquilae uerbo petit astra Iohannes.”

  Coelius Sedulius (400–500) said by 500 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Description of the in the Carmen Paschale, as translated by Carl P. Springer, Sedulius: The Paschal Song and Hymns, Ancient Israel and Its Literature, vol. 35 (SBL Press, 2013) p. 21

• “We believe that it has been brought about by a special dispensation of Divine Providence, that the Frankish Princes should profess the orthodox faith; like the Roman Emperors, in order that they may help this city, whence it took its rise. Persuade them with all earnestness to keep from any friendship and alliance with our most unspeakable enemies, the Lombards.”

  Pope Pelagius II (520–590) said by 590 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Though a man loves a girl ever so much, he never succeeds in winning her without a great deal of talking.”

  Vātsyāyana (500–500) said by 500 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ζωσίμη ἡ πρὶν ἐοῦσα μόνῳ τῷ σώματι δούλη καὶ τῷ σώματι νῦν εὗρεν ἐλευθερίην.”

  Damascius (450–550) said by 550 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: J. A. Symonds Jr., "Epitaph of a Slave", Studies of the Greek Poets (1873), p. 357: