Lucius Afranius (poet)

Lucius Afranius was an ancient Roman comic poet who lived at the beginning of the 1st century BC.

Quotes

 * Si possent homines delenimentis capi, Omnes haberent nunc amatores anus. Aetas et corpus tenerum et morigeratio, Haec sunt uenena formosarum mulierum: Mala aetas nulla delenimenta inuenit.
 * If one might capture men with magic philtres, Lovers would swarm round every toothless crone. A dainty body, youth, obliging ways— These be the philtres handsome women use: Old age has none of these—and these are all.
 * Fragment of Vopiscus; Kirby Flower Smith, "Note on Satyros, Life of Euripides, Oxyr. Pap. 9, 157–8", American Journal of Philology, Vol. 34 (1913), p. 64
 * Cp. Euripides, Andromache, 205; Lucretius, IV, 1278; Tibullus, I, 5, 43 & I, 8, 23; Ovid, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, 35 & Ars Amatoria, II, 99; Plutarch, Moralia, 141 B


 * Alius est amor, alius cupido.
 * Love is one thing, lust another.
 * Fragment of Cinerarius; Jon R. Stone, Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations (2005), p. 367


 * Amabit sapiens, cupient caeteri.
 * Wise men love, others are mere lechers.
 * Fragment of Omen; Richard A. Branyon, Latin Phrases & Quotations (1994), p. 12


 * Isto parentum est vita vilis liberis, Ubi malunt metui, quam vereri se ab suis.
 * Children hold a sire's life cheap, Where rather feared than honoured he would be.
 * Fragment of Consobrinis, quoted by Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, XV, xiii, 3; John C. Rolfe, The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, Vol. 3, LCL 212 (1927), pp. 92–3


 * Usus me genuit, mater peperit Memoria. Sophiam vocant me Grai, vos Sapientiam.
 * My sire Experience was, me Memory bore, In Greece called Sophia, Wisdom in Rome.
 * Fragment of Sella, quoted by Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, XIII, viii, 3; John C. Rolfe, The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, Vol. 2, LCL 200 (1927), pp. 430–1


 * Formosa virgo est; dotis dimidium vocant Isti, qui dotes neglegunt uxorias.
 * The girl is pretty; this is half a dowry, say men who aren't interested in a dowry.
 * Unassigned fragment; Norbert Gutterman, A Book of Latin Quotations (1966), p. 47