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