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• “Ἡδύ, φίλοι, μείδημα τὸ Λαΐδος: ἡδὺ κατ᾽ αὖ τῶν ἠπιοδινήτων δάκρυ χέει βλεφάρων. χθιζά μοι ἀπροφάσιστον ἐπέστενεν, ἐγκλιδὸν ὤμῳ ἡμετέρῳ κεφαλὴν δηρὸν ἐρεισαμένη: μυρομένην δ᾽ ἐφίλησα: τὰ δ᾽ ὡς δροσερῆς ἀπὸ πηγῆς δάκρυα μιγνυμένων πῖπτε κατὰ στομάτων. εἶπε δ᾽ ἀνειρομένῳ, “Τίνος εἵνεκα δάκρυα λείβεις;” “Δείδια μή με λίπῃς: ἐστὲ γὰρ ὁρκαπάται.”

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

  Recorded in: Anthologia Palatina, v, 250, as translated by W. S. Marris, in The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation (1938), "The Tears of Fear

• “Πάντες τῷ θανάτῳ τηρούμεθα, καὶ τρεφόμεσθα ὡς ἀγέλη χοίρων σφαζομένων ἀλόγως.”

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

  Recorded in: T. F. Higham, "Sentence of Death", The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation (1938), p. 643:

• “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)

• “Tu quoque falsa tuens bona prius incipe colla iugo retrahere: Vera dehinc animum subierint.”

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

• “...variety is necessary in love, so love is to be produced by means of variety.”

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

• “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

• “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

• “I am old. I am young. I am Gwion, I am universal, I am possessed of penetrating wit.”

  Taliesin (518–599) said by 599 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 …

• “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

• “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

• “tribhujasya phalashariram samadalakoti bhujardhasamvargah”

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

• “Among these [councils] I wish above all to follow and imitate the one whom we know to have been the author of the Council of Chalcedon, and who, in accordance with his name, clearly showed himself to be a member of that lion [Pope Leo I] who came forth from the tribe of Judah, with his lively zeal and faith. (from the encyclical letter Vas electionis, 444)”

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

• “Has anything deceived you about me, that your love is killing me, And that verily as often as you order my heart, it will do what you order?”

  Imru' al-Qais (501–544) said by 544 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:

• “When the return of the Sun took place from the middle of Aslesha, the solstice was then right. It now takes place from Punarvasu.”

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

  Recorded in: as quoted in David Frawley, Gods, Sages and Kings: Vedic Secrets of Ancient Civilization, 2000.

• “Ὑπναλέην δὲ ἀθρήσας Διόνυσος ἐρημαίην Ἀριάδνην θαύματι μῖξεν ἔρωτα·”

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

  Recorded in: Dionysiaca, bk. 47, 271, trans. Mrs Browning, Last Poems (1862)

• “Tum erumpens grex catulorum de cubili laeanae barbarae, tribus, ut lingua eius exprimitur, cyulis, nostra longis navibus.”

  Gildas (500–570) said by 570 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