"Postremus dicas, primus taceas."
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Tr. Thomas FitzHugh, "The Origin of Verse", Bulletin of the School of Latin, no. 8 (University of Virginia, 1 January 1915), p. 11
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Marcius Vates
Gnaeus Marcius Vates was a Roman politician and orator. Little is known of his life, but three fragments of his praecepta have survived as quotations in the works of later grammarians.
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