„Open your eyelids, will you all, and let your brains leave sleep behind.“
Pandite sultis genas et corde relinquite somnum.
— Ennius
As quoted by Festus, in De verborum significatione (Loeb translation)
Zitate Quintus Ennius
„The mind wanders unsure, except in that life is lived.“
Incerte errat animus; praeterpropter vitam vivitur.
— Ennius
As quoted by Aulus Gellius in Noctes Atticae (Attic Nights), Book XIX, Chapter X
Iphigenia
„The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us!“
Simia quam similis turpissima bestia nobis!
— Ennius
As quoted by Cicero in De Natura Deorum, Book I, Chapter XXXV
Variant translation: How like us is that ugly brute, the ape!
„Not chaffering war but waging war, not with gold but with iron—thus let us of both sides make trial for our lives“
Nec cauponantes bellum sed belligerantes;
Ferro non auro vitam cernamus utrique.
— Ennius
As quoted by Cicero in De Officiis, Book I, Chapter XII
„Fortune is given to brave men.“
Fortibus est fortuna viris data.
— Ennius
As quoted by Macrobius in Saturnalia, Book VI, Chapter I
„One man, by delaying, restored the state to us.
He valued safety more than mob's applause;
Hence now his glory more resplendent grows.“
Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem.
Noenum rumores ponebat ante salutem;
Ergo plusque magisque viri nunc gloria claret.
— Ennius
Of Fabius Maximus Cunctator, as quoted by Cicero in De Senectute, Chapter IV (Loeb translation)
„Whom they fear, they hate. And whom one hates, one hopes to see him dead.“
Quem metuunt oderunt; quem quisque odit, perisse expetit.
— Ennius
As quoted by Cicero in De Officiis, Book II, Chapter 23
„All mortals desire themselves to be praised.“
Omnes mortales sese laudarier optant.
— Ennius
As quoted by Augustine of Hippo in De Trinitate, Book XIII, Chapter III
