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• “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)

• “Ἀνέρα λυσσητῆρι κυνὸς βεβολημένον ἰῷ ὕδασι θηρείην εἰκόνα φασὶ βλέπειν. λυσσώων τάχα πικρὸν Ἔρως ἐνέπηξεν ὀδόντα εἰς ἐμέ, καὶ μανίαις θυμὸν ἐληίσατο: σὴν γὰρ ἐμοὶ καὶ πόντος ἐπήρατον εἰκόνα φαίνει, καὶ ποταμῶν δῖναι, καὶ δέπας οἰνοχόον.”

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

  Recorded in: Anthologia Palatina, v, 266, as translated by W. G. Headlam, A Book of Greek Verse (1907), "The Mad Lover

• “Varāhamihira .... in his Brihat Samhitā.... states that the height of a tall man is 108 angulas, that of a medium man ninety-six angulas, and that of a short man eighty-four angulas (the same heights apply to statues of various deities); using our Harappan angula of 1.76 cm, we get 1.90, 1.69 and 1.48 m respectively, quite consistent with ‘tall’, ‘medium’ and ‘short’.”

  Varāhamihira (505–587) said by 587 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.

• “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

• “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 …

• “Kama is also learnt from the Kama Sutra (aphorisms on love) and from the practice of [[citizens.”

  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:

• “'He who does not hold to his own will always has what he will; for externally he does not get his own way but whatever happens, no matter what it is, gives him quiet satisfaction and he discovers for himself that he has what as they he will. For he does not want things to happen as he wishes; he wants things to have happened as they happened.'”

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

• “Χερσὶ γυναιμανέεσσιν ἐμῆς μὴ ψαῦε φαρέτρης· τόξον ἔχω, σὺ δὲ θύρσον·”

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

  Recorded in: Dionysiaca, bk. 16, 165, trans. W. H. D. Rouse (1940)

• “Sure-hoofed is my steed in the day of battle: The high sprigs of alder are on thy hand: Bran by the branch thou bearest Has Amathaon the good prevailed.”

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

• “I pardon your offence against me. Pray that God also may pardon you.”

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

• “Quid enim illa praestantius, quae caeli machinam sonora dulcedine modulatur et naturae convenientiam ubique dispersam virtutis suae gratia comprehendit?”

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

• “Σκηνὴ πᾶς ὁ βίος, καὶ παίγνιον· ἤ μάθε παίζειν, τὴν σπουδὴν μεταθείς, ἢ φέρε τὰς ὀδύνας.”

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

  Recorded in: Robert Bland & John Herman Merivale, The Monthly Magazine, vol. xix (1805); Translations Chiefly from the Greek Anthology (1806), p. 70:

• “Quodsi putatis longius vitam trahi mortalis aura nominis, cum sera vobis rapiet hoc etiam dies iam vos secunda mors manet.”

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

• “Fair were they also, diffusing the odor of musk as they moved, Like the soft zephyr bringing with it the scent of the clove.”

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

• “Only virtue's water can wash out the stain in living things.”

  Buddhaghoṣa (401–500) said by 500 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience.”

  Benedict of Nursia (480–547) said by 547 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Εἰ δὲ καὶ περὶ τῶν ἀντιπόδων ἐπεξεργαστικώτερον θελήσειέ τις ζητῆσαι, ῥᾳδίως τοὺς γραώδεις μύθους αὐτῶν ἀνακαλύψει.”

  Cosmas Indicopleustes (600–550) said by 550 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Topographia Christiana, bk. 1, sec. 20 (tr. J. W. McCrindle, 1897)

• “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

• “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