Quintus Ennius citáty
Quintus Ennius
Datum narození: 16. červenec 239 př. n. l.
Datum úmrtí: 8. říjen 169 př. n. l.
Quintus Ennius byl římský epický a tragický básník, jenž je považován za otce římské literatury.
Podobní autoři
Cornelius Nepos15
římský spisovatel
Flavius Renatus Vegetius3
spisovatel římské říše
Marcus Terentius Varro Reatinus9
starověký latinský učenec
Marcus Tullius Cicero328
římský filozof a státník
Seneca starší3
římský učenec
Columella4
římský spisovatel
Marcus Manilius8
římský spisovatel
Titus Livius35
římský historik
Aulus Gellius11
latinský autor a gramatikCitáty Quintus Ennius
„Open your eyelids, will you all, and let your brains leave sleep behind.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Festus, in De verborum significatione (Loeb translation)
„All mortals desire themselves to be praised.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Augustine of Hippo in De Trinitate, Book XIII, Chapter III
„Neither you nor any man alive shall do this unpunished: no, you shall give recompense to me with your life-blood.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Macrobius in Saturnalia; Book VI, Chapter I
Compare: Tu tamen interea calido mihi sanguine poenas persolves amborum, Virgil, Aeneid, Book IX, line 422
„Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping. Why? I fly, living, through the mouths of men.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Cicero in Tusculanae Disputationes, Book I, chapter XV, section 34
„Who kindly sets a wand'rer on his way
Does e'en as if he lit another's lamp by his:
No less shines his, when he his friend's hath lit.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Cicero in De Officiis, Book I, Chapter XVI - translation by Walter Miller
„As a strong horse that has often won on the last lap at Olympia is now resting, tired out by old age.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Cicero in De Senectute, Chapter V (tr. K. Volk)
„where the Gauls stealthily, at the time of night when sleep falls on men, attacked the high citadel and of a sudden stained with blood walls and watchers.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Macrobius in Saturnalia, Book I, Chapter IV (tr. J. Elliott)
„And earth who herself bestowed the body takes it back and wastes not a whit.“
— Ennius
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
As quoted by Cicero in De Senectute, Chapter VI (Loeb translation)
„No sooner said than done—so acts your man of worth.“
— Ennius
As quoted by Priscianus in Ars Prisciani, Book VI
