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Terence. Ἑαυτὸν τιμωρούμενος [Heuton Timoroumenous]. c. 163 BC, Rome, Italy, act 4, sc. 2.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De re publica [On the Commonwealth]. c. 51 BC, bk. 6, ch. 13.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. "The Republic." The Republic and The Laws, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 6, ch. 13.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 2, l. 1.

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

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Terence. Ἑαυτὸν τιμωρούμενος [Heuton Timoroumenous]. c. 163 BC, Rome, Italy, act 4, sc. 6.

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Varro, Marcus Terentius. Rerum rusticarum libri tres [Three Books on Agriculture]. 1st century BC, bk. 3.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Laelius de Amicitia. c. 43 BC, ch. 21, sect. 80.

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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.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Pro Sestio [In Defense of Publius Sestio]. c. 56 BC, Rome, Italy.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 1, l. 155.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 1, l. 155.

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.

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On Divination

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De Divinatione [Concerning Divination]. c. 44 BC, bk. 2, ch 58, sect. 119.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

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On Old Age

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cato Maior de Senectute [Cato the Elder on Old Age]. c. 1885, ch. 23, sect. 85.

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

There were poets before Homer.

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Brutus

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Brutus. c. 46 BC, sect. 71.

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

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 2, l. 558.

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

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Terence. Heauton Timorumenos [The Self-Tormentor]. c. 163 BC, act 4, sc. 3.

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Terence. "The Self-Tormentor." The Comedies, translated by Betty Radice. Penguin Classics, 1976.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 3, l. 830.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 3, l. 830.

It was ordained at the beginning of the world that certain signs should prefigure certain events.

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Concerning Divination

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De Divinatione [Concerning Divination]. c. 44 BC, bk. 1, ch. 52, sect. 118.

Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love.

Terence

The Girl from Andros

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Terence. Andria [The Woman from Andros]. 166 BC, Rome, Italy.

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Terence. Andria, edited by Sander M. Goldberg. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 2, l. 75.

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Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 2, l. 75.

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Terence. Eunuchus [The Eunuch]. 161 BC, Megalesian Games, Rome, Italy, act 2, sc. 2.

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Plautus, Titus Maccius. Mostellaria [The Ghost]. c. 193 BC, act 3, sc. 2.

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Plautus, Titus Maccius. "The Haunted House." Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold, translated by Erich Segal. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 3, sc. 2.

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Sallust. Bellum Catilinae [War of Catiline]. c. 43–40 BC.

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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.