Can you name the ancient Romans who penned the following quotations?

created by Chunklets
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  • Source: The Latin Library
  • NB: This quiz asks for the author of the passage, not the person whom the passage is about. Anglicized forms of names should work just fine. The translations are my own - feel free to criticize them!
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...the master's eyes and footsteps are the healthiest things for the farm.
Already ash was falling upon the ships, hotter and thicker the closer they approached.
And then... inspecting all parts of my body, I see that I am not a bird, but a donkey.
'To robbery, butchery, and plundering they give the false name 'Empire,' and where they make a desert they name it 'Peace.''
...always the most pleasing are gifts which the giver makes precious.
'They are slaves.' No, they are men. 'They are slaves.' No, companions. 'They are slaves.' No, humble friends.
And let him be learned, skilled with pencils, educated in geometry...
He got the nickname 'Caligula' from a camp joke, for he was brought up among the troops in the dress of a common soldier.
I do not like you, Sabidius, nor can I say why. This only I can say: I like you not.
'And you, O Tyrians, keep up my hatred for his stock and all his race to come, and place it as a gift to my ashes.'
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Do you not see that even drops of water, falling on a rock over a long interval, bore through it?
'That soldier is my master... bragging, shameless, foul-smelling...'
All of Gaul has been divided into three parts, of which the Belgae inhabit one...
The story holds that... a thirsty she-wolf from the surrounding mountains turned her steps towards the infants' crying.
I have built a monument more lasting than bronze...
Cynthia first captured melancholy me with her dear eyes...
'Storax! Aeschinus has not returned from dinner tonight, nor any of the young slaves...'
Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love...
Now Trimalchio, drenched in perfume, was being dried off... with mantles made of the softest wool
You ought, Catiline, to have been executed long ago by command of the consul...
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Ancient Latin Authors by Quote Quiz

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  • Created Dec 11, 2010 in Literature
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