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— Quintilian ancient Roman rhetor 35 - 96
Book I, Chapter VIII, 14
Compare: "To maken vertue of necessite", Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "The Knightes Tale", line 3044
— Sidonius Apollinaris Gaulish poet, aristocrat and bishop 430 - 486
Carmen 5, line 251; vol. 1 p. 83.
— Tertullian Christian theologian 155 - 230
Context: Man is one name belonging to every nation upon earth. In them all is one soul though many tongues. Every country has its own language, yet the subjects of which the untutored soul speaks are the same everywhere.
De Testimonio Animae (The Testimony of the Soul), 6.3
— Gaio Valerio Catullo Latin poet -84 - -54 BC
LI, last lines
— John Amos Comenius Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer 1592 - 1670
The Great Didactic (Didactica Magna) (Amsterdam, 1657) [written 1627–38], as translated by M. W. Keatinge (1896).<!--http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenaref/comenius/comenius1/p1/Comenius_opera_1.html-->
Cf. Aristotle, De anima, III, 4, 430a: "δυνάμει δ' οὕτως ὥσπερ ἐν γραμματείῳ ᾧ μηθὲν ἐνυπάρχει ἐντελεχείᾳ γεγραμμένον· ὅπερ συμβαίνει ἐπὶ τοῦ νοῦ."
— Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius philosopher of the early 6th century 480
Prose IV, line 2
— Pliny the Younger Roman writer 61 - 113
Letter 22, 7.
— Statius Roman poet of the 1st century AD (Silver Age of Latin literature) 40 - 96
Line 73
— Statius Roman poet of the 1st century AD (Silver Age of Latin literature) 40 - 96
Line 574 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
— Statius Roman poet of the 1st century AD (Silver Age of Latin literature) 40 - 96
i, line 148 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
— Statius Roman poet of the 1st century AD (Silver Age of Latin literature) 40 - 96
Line 136 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
— Statius Roman poet of the 1st century AD (Silver Age of Latin literature) 40 - 96
Line 521 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
— Statius Roman poet of the 1st century AD (Silver Age of Latin literature) 40 - 96
Line 724. Thomas Gray's translation: "And calm'd the terrors of his claws in gold".
— Statius Roman poet of the 1st century AD (Silver Age of Latin literature) 40 - 96
Line 889 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
— Statius Roman poet of the 1st century AD (Silver Age of Latin literature) 40 - 96
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— Statius Roman poet of the 1st century AD (Silver Age of Latin literature) 40 - 96
iii, line 39 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
