(65 BC - 8 BC)
Verified
- "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori."
- Translation: "It is sweet and honorable to die for the fatherland."
- Source: Odes III, 2, 13
- "Pulvis et umbra sumus."
- Translation: "Dust and shadow we are."
- Source: Carmina (Book IV, 7, 16)
- "Dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas. Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero."
- Translation: "As I speak; flees cruel time. Reap the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow."
- Source: Odes I, 11, 8
Attributed
- "Ars longa, vita brevis."
- Translation: "Art is long, life is short."
- "Aurea mediocritas"
- Translation: "Golden Mean"
- "Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit."
- Translation: "Captive Greece conquered her savage victor."
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