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.
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Citáty 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