Quintus Ennius citáty
Quintus Ennius
Datum narození: 16. červenec 239 př. n. l.
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Quintus Ennius byl římský epický a tragický básník, jenž je považován za otce římské literatury.
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„As a strong horse that has often won on the last lap at Olympia is now resting, tired out by old age.“
— Ennius
Sicut fortis equus, spatio qui saepe supremo
Vicit Olympia, nunc senio confectus quiescit.
As quoted by Cicero in De Senectute, Chapter V (tr. K. Volk)
„And earth who herself bestowed the body takes it back and wastes not a whit.“
— Ennius
Terram corpus quae dederit, ipsam
capere neque dispendi facere hilum.
As quoted by Varro in De Lingua Latina, Book V
„Your minds that once did stand erect and strong,
What madness swerves them from their wonted course?“
— Ennius
Quo vobis mentes, rectae quae stare solebant
Antehac, dementis sese flexere viai?
As quoted by Cicero in De Senectute, Chapter VI (Loeb translation)
„No sooner said than done—so acts your man of worth.“
— Ennius
Dictum factumque facit frux.
As quoted by Priscianus in Ars Prisciani, Book VI
„The mind wanders unsure, except in that life is lived.“
— Ennius
Iphigenia, Incerte errat animus; praeterpropter vitam vivitur.
As quoted by Aulus Gellius in Noctes Atticae (Attic Nights), Book XIX, Chapter X
„Not chaffering war but waging war, not with gold but with iron—thus let us of both sides make trial for our lives“
— Ennius
Nec cauponantes bellum sed belligerantes;
Ferro non auro vitam cernamus utrique.
As quoted by Cicero in De Officiis, Book I, Chapter XII
„Fortune is given to brave men.“
— Ennius
Fortibus est fortuna viris data.
As quoted by Macrobius in Saturnalia, Book VI, Chapter I
„The idle mind knows not what it wants.“
— Ennius
Iphigenia, Otioso in otio animus nescit quid velit.
As quoted by Aulus Gellius in Noctes Atticae (Attic Nights), Book XIX, Chapter X
„Whom they fear, they hate. And whom one hates, one hopes to see him dead.“
— Ennius
Quem metuunt oderunt; quem quisque odit, perisse expetit.
As quoted by Cicero in De Officiis, Book II, Chapter 23
