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Plautus Quotes (-254--184)
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About Plautus
Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC β 184 BC), born at Sarsina, Emilia-Romagna, was a comic playwright in the time of the Roman Republic. The years of his life are uncertain, but his plays were first produced between about 205 BC and 184 BC.
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βVicti vicimusβ
βVincite virtute vera.β
βEach man reaps on his own farm.β
βYou are seeking a knot in a bulrush.β
βMale partum, male disperit.β
βo Libane, uti miser est homo qui amat!β
βNe male loquare absenti amico.β
βNulli est homini perpetuum bonum.β
βQuem di diligunt, adulescens moriturβ
βNecesse est facere sumptum qui quaerit lucrum.β
βAmor et melle et felle est faecundissimus.β
βfortiter malum qui patitur, idem post patitur bonum.β
βBonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.β
βQui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.β
βHabeus ut nactus ; nota mala res optimaβst.β
βQuid opust verbis? facta est pugna in gallo gallinacio.β
βFeliciter is sapit, qui alieno periculo sapit.β
βNon aetate, verum ingenio apiscitur sapientia.β
βBibite ! pergraecamini ! Este ! effercite vos !β
βnon tu scis? quae amanti parcet, eadem sibi parcet parum.β
βNon temere est quod corvos cantat mihi nunc ab laeva manuβ
βEgo verum amo, verum vol mihi dici : mendacem odi.β
βQuasi piscis itidem est amator lenae: nequam est nisi recens.β
βQuod tuumβst, meumβst; omne meum est autem tuum.β
Plautus Quotes by Topic
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Plautus on Love 4 quotes
βAuro contra cedo modestum amatorem.
Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.β
Plautus on Deity
βKeep what goods the Gods provide you.β
Plautus on Ownership
βWhat is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.β
Plautus on Guilt
βNothing is more wretched than a guilty conscience.β
Plautus on Wolves
βLupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit.β
Plautus on Stone
Plautus on Witnesses
βOne eye-witness weighs more than ten hearsays β Seeing is believing all the world over.β
Plautus on Mice
βConsider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.β
Plautus on Epitaphs
βPostquam est mortem aptus Plautus: comΕdia luget Scena deserta, dein risus ludus jocusque Et numeri innumeri simul omnes collacrumarunt.β
Plautus on Death
βQuem dii diligunt, Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.
He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment.β
Plautus on Defamation
Plautus on Ageing
βSenex cum extemplo est, jam nec sentit, nec sapit; Ajunt solere eum rursum repuerascere.
When a man reaches the last stage of life,βwithout senses or mentalityβthey say that he has grown a child again.β
About Plautus
Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC β 184 BC), born at Sarsina, Emilia-Romagna, was a comic playwright in the time of the Roman Republic. The years of his life are uncertain, but his plays were first produced between about 205 BC and 184 BC.