Wednesday, December 25, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Tiberius

« All quotes from this author
 

Quid scribam vobis, p[atres]. c[onscripti]., aut quo modo scribam, aut quid omnino non scribam hoc tempore, dii me deaeque peius perdant quam cotidie perire sentio, si scio.
--
My Lords, if I know what to tell you, or how to tell it, or what to leave altogether untold for the present, may all the gods and goddesses in Heaven bring me to an even worse damnation than I now daily suffer!
--
Variant translation: What to write to you, Conscript Fathers, or how to write, or what not to write at this time, may all the gods and goddesses pour upon my head a more terrible vengeance than that under which I feel myself daily sinking, if I can tell.
--
Letter to the Senate, from Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, ch. 67 (cf. Tacitus, Annals, VI 6.1.)

 
Tiberius

» Tiberius - all quotes »



Tags: Tiberius Quotes, Authors starting by T


Similar quotes

 

Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Quid enim est aetas hominis, nisi ea memoria rerum veterum cum superiorum aetate contexitur? (120)

 
Cicero
 

Nunc scio quid sit Amor.

 
Virgil
 

Accedens deinde proprius rege flexis genibus dixit. "Lauerd King, wassheil." At ille visa facie puelle admiratus est tantum eius decorum et incalvit. Denique interrorogavit interpretem suum quid dixerat puella, et quid ei respondere deberet. Cui interpres dixit, "Vocavit te dominum regem et vocabulo salutacionis honoravit. Quid autem respondere debes est 'drincheil.'"

 
Geoffrey of Monmouth
 

Sanus est, qui scit quid sit insania, quippe insania scire se non potest, non magis quam caecitas se videre.

 
Apuleius
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact