Explore 149 quotes from the 1st century BC

Virgil. "The Eclogues." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 9.

Virgil. "The Eclogues." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 1.

Sallust. "The War with Catiline." The War with Catiline and The War with Jugurtha, translated by John T. Ramsey J. C. Rolfe. Harvard University Press, 2013.

Cattulus, Gaius Valerius. The Poems of Catullus, translated by Guy Lee. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 43, l. 8.

Vitruvius Pollio. Ten Books on Architecture, edited by Ingrid D. Rowland and Thomas Noble Howe. Cambridge University Press, 2001, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Cattulus, Gaius Valerius. The Poems of Catullus, translated by Guy Lee. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 76, l. 13.

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