Explore 1180 quotes from Classical antiquity

Sophocles. "Antigone." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.

Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, no. 38.

Horace. "Ars Poetica." Satires, Epistles, Ars Poetica, translated by H. R. Fairclough. Harvard University Press, 1929, l. 102.

Euripides. "Orestes." Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes, edited and translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Virgil. "The Eclogues." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 8.

Hesiod. "Works and Days." Theogony and Works and Days, translated by M. L. West. Oxford University Press, 2009, l. 218.

Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.

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

Euripides. "Alcestis." Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Hercules, Hippolytus, edited and translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Aristotle. De Caelo, translated by C. D. C. Reeve. Hackett Publishing, 2020.

Sophocles. "Oedipus Rex." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cicero: Cato Maior de Senectute [Cato the Elder on Old Age], edited by J. G. F. Powell. Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 8.

Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 11.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. "Brutus." Cicero: Brutus and Orator, translated by Robert A. Kaster. Oxford University Press, 2020, sect. 71.

Herodotus. The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 8.

Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 2, l. 558.