"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."

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

"Otioso in otio animus nescit quid velit."

"Incerte errat animus; praeterpropter vitam vivitur."

"Fortibus est fortuna viris data."

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

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

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

"Dictum factumque facit frux."

"Pandite sultis genas et corde relinquite somnum."

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

"Omnes mortales sese laudarier optant."

"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."

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

"Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque."

"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."

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

"Quem nemo ferro potuit superare nec auro."

"Simia quam similis turpissima bestia nobis!"

"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?"

"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."

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

"Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli."

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

"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."

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

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

"Ardua res haec est opibus non tradere mores."

"Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil."

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

"Accipe quam primum; brevis est occasio lucri."

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