Ennius

"Homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam, Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendat facit; Nihilo minus ipsi lucet, cum illi accenderit."

"Nemo me lacrimis decoret neque funera fletu faxit. Cur? volito vivos per ora virum."

"Quo vobis mentes, rectae quae stare solebant Antehac, dementis sese flexere viai?"

"Quem metuunt oderunt; quem quisque odit, perisse expetit."

"Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur."

"Nulla sancta societas Nec fides regni est."

"Sicut fortis equus, spatio qui saepe supremo Vicit Olympia, nunc senio confectus quiescit."

"Simia quam similis turpissima bestia nobis!"

"Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem. Noenum rumores ponebat ante salutem; Ergo plusque magisque viri nunc gloria claret."

"Qui vincit non est victor nisi victus fatetur."

"Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque."

"Omnes mortales sese laudarier optant."

"Dictum factumque facit frux."

"Pandite sultis genas et corde relinquite somnum."

"Terram corpus quae dederit, ipsam capere neque dispendi facere hilum."

"Nec pol homo quisquam faciet inpune animatus hoc nec tu; nam mi calido dabis sanguine poenas."

"Quem nemo ferro potuit superare nec auro."

"Qua Galli furtim noctu summa arcis adorti moenia concubia vigilesque repente cruentant."

"Nec cauponantes bellum sed belligerantes; Ferro non auro vitam cernamus utrique."

"Fortibus est fortuna viris data."

"Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat, caeli scrutantur plagas."

"Otioso in otio animus nescit quid velit."

"Incerte errat animus; praeterpropter vitam vivitur."

"Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre."

"Ennius ingenio maximus, arte rudis."

"To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman Poetry." We must remember how truly Greek he was in his point of view. He set the example for later Latin poetry by writing the first epic of Rome in Greek hexameter verses instead of in the old Saturnian verse. He made popular the doctrines of Euhemerus, and he was in general a champion of free thought and rationalism."

"Ennius qui primus ameno Detulit ex Helicone perenni fronde coronam."