Livius Andronicus

Lucius Livius Andronicus (Greek: Λούκιος Λίβιος Ανδρόνικος; c. 284 – c. 204 BC) was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet of the Old Latin period of the Roman Republic.

Quotes

 * E. H. Warmington, Remains of Old Latin, Vol. 2, LCL 314 (1936), pp. 1–45
 * Norbert Guterman, A Book of Latin Quotations (1966), pp. 2–5


 * Mirum videtur quod sit factum iam diu?
 * Does that seem wonderful because 'twas done Now long ago?
 * Aiax Mastigophorus
 * Cp. Sophocles, Ajax, 1266–7; see: E. M. Sanford, "The Tragedies of Livius Andronicus", The Classical Journal, vol. 18, no. 5 (1923), p. 280


 * Praestatur laus virtuti, sed multo ocius verno gelu tabescit.
 * To virtue praise is offered, But quicker far it melts than ice in spring.
 * Aiax Mastigophorus


 * Lepus tute es; et pulpamentum quaeris!
 * A hare—that's you; and yet you're hunting game!
 * Ex incertis fabulis


 * Virum mihi, Camena, insece versutum, ...
 * Tell me, O Goddess of song, of the clever man, ...
 * Odissia I, 1


 *    ... namque nullum peius macerat humanum quamde mare saevum; vires cui sunt magnae topper confringent inportunae undae.
 * ... for nothing Wastes a man worse than cruel sea. The man Whose strength is great—him will the savage waves With all speed shatter.
 * Odissia VIII, 138–39


 * Cum socios nostros Ciclops impius mandisset, ...
 * When wicked Cyclops had my comrades munched, ...
 * Odissia XX, 19