Quintus Ennius Quotes - Page 2

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• One man by delaying saved the state for us.

  Quintus Ennius

  Men, States, Saved

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• Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.
  [Lat., Nemo me lacrymis decoret, nec funera fletu.
  Faxit cur? Volito vivu' per ora virum.]

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  Tears, Mouths, Nemo

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• Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

  Quintus Ennius

  Funeral, Honor, Tears

  As quoted in "Tusculanae Disputationes" by Cicero, Book I, chapter XV, section 34,

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

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  Father, Latin, Greek

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• O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

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  Sweet, Home, Indulge In

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• Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.

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  Deeds, Daring, Worthy

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