Martial

"Ein Gesicht, dem das Lachen fehlt, ist nicht willkommen."

"Gestern hat er noch mit uns gebadet und fröhlich gespeist, und heute morgen wurde derselbe tot aufgefunden. Fragst du nach der Ursache seines so plötzlichen Ablebens: er sah im Traum den Arzt Hermokrates."

"Ich kann weder mit dir noch ohne dich leben."

"Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba."

"Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere ‘Vivam’: Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie."

"Cineri gloria sera venit."

"Stop abusing my verses, or publish some of your own."

"You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter."

"Invitas nullum nisi cum quo, Cotta, lavaris et dant convivam balnea sola tibi mirabar quare numquam me, Cotta, vocasses: iam scio me nudum displicuisse tibi."

"I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee."

"Ride, si sapis."

"Turpe est difficiles habere nugas, Et stultus labor est ineptiarum."

"Sit mihi verna satur: sit non doctissima conjux: Sit nox cum somno: sit sine lite dies."

"Simpliciter pateat vitium fortasse pusillum: Quod tegitur, magnum creditur esse malum"

"Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Aemiliane; Dantur opes nulli nunc, nisi divitibus."

"Nullos esse deos, inane caelum Adfirmat Segius: probatque, quod se Factum, dum negat haec, videt beatum."

"The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own."

"Laudant illa sed ista legunt."

"You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no."

"Divisum sic breve fiet opus."

"Si post fata venit gloria, non propero."

"Nobis pereunt et imputantur."

"Vita non est vivere, sed valera vita est."

"Barbarian hordes en masse you fuck, Odd types into your bed you tuck, You take on blacks and Asian forces, And Jews, and soldiers, and their horses. Yet you, voracious Roman chick, Have never known a Roman dick."

"Quisquis ubique habitat, Maxime, nusquam habitat."

"Accipe quam primum; brevis est occasio lucri."

"Laudas balnea versibus trecentis Cenantis bene Pontici, Sabelle. Vis cenare, Sabelle, non lavari."

"Ampliat aetatis spatium sibi vir bonus. Hoc est Vivere bis vita posse priore frui."

"Neither fear your death's day nor long for it."

"Ardua res haec est opibus non tradere mores."

"Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil."

"The mode of death is sadder than death itself."

"Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli."

"Difficilis facilis iucundus acerbus es idem: Nec possum tecum vivere nec sine te."

"He who refuses nothing...will soon have nothing to refuse."

"Currant verba licet, manus est velocior illis; Nondum lingua suum, dextra peregit opus."

"And then what proper person can be partial To all those nauseous epigrams of Martial?"

"The greatest of epigrammatists, and the father of the epigram as we understand it."

"I have now gone through the first seven books of Martial, and have learned about 360 of the best lines. His merit seems to me to lie, not in wit, but in the rapid succession of vivid images. I wish he were less nauseous. ... Besides his indecency, his servility and his mendicancy disgust me."

"Audio Valerium Martialem decessisse et moleste fero. Erat homo ingeniosus acutus acer, et qui plurimum in scribendo et salis haberet et fellis nec candoris minus. ... At non erunt aeterna, quae scripsit; non erunt fortasse, ille tamen scripsit, tamquam essent futura."