Explore 149 quotes from the 1st century BC

Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 2, l. 1.

Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 12.

Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3, no. 6.

Sextus Propertius. Elegies, edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Harvard University Press, 1990, bk. 2.

Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3, no. 6.

Cattulus, Gaius Valerius. The Poems of Catullus, translated by Guy Lee. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 70, l. 3.

Horace. "Epodes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, epode 2, l. 1.

Virgil. The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2010, bk. 1.

Virgil. The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2010, bk. 3.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. "Laelius de Amicitia." M. Tullius Ciceronis: De Re Publica, De Legibus, Cato Maior de Senectute, Laelius de Amicitia, edited by J. G. F. Powell. Oxford University Press, 2006.

Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, no. 7.

Virgil. "The Eclogues." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 2.

Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 2.

Virgil. "The Georgics." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1.

Livy. Rome and the Mediterranean: History of Rome from Its Foundation, books 31-45, translated by Henry Bettenson. Penguin Classics, 1976, bk. 34, ch. 4, sect. 13.

Ovid. "Amores." The Love Poems, translated by A. D. Melville. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3, no. 11.

Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 7.

Virgil. The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2010, bk. 3.