Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit, as the Roman poet, Virgil, declared with much more historical sense than most writers of today.

Some lines of the Roman poet Claudian inform us that he heard a voice proceeding from a sacred grove, " Break off all delays, Alaric.

The Roman poet, Horace, also compared the two, describing Alcaeus as " more full-throatedly singing "-see Horace's tribute below.

The Roman poet Horace modelled his own lyrical compositions on those of Alcaeus, rendering the Lesbian poet's verse-forms, including ' Alcaic ' and ' Sapphic ' stanzas, into concise Latin-an achievement he celebrates in his third book of odes.

Among ancient sources, the poet Simonides, another near-contemporary, says the campaign force numbered 200, 000 ; while a later writer, the Roman Cornelius Nepos estimates 200, 000 infantry and 10, 000 cavalry, of which only 100, 000 fought in the battle, while the rest were loaded into the fleet that was rounding Cape Sounion ; Plutarch and Pausanias both independently give 300, 000, as does the Suda dictionary.

First described by the 1st-century AD Roman poet Martial, who praised its convenient use, the codex achieved numerical parity with the scroll around AD 300, and had completely replaced it throughout the now Christianised Greco-Roman world by the 6th century.

The proverbial phrase for it was coined by the Roman poet Horace in his Ars poetica:

According to the Roman poet Ovid ( Fasti v. 379 ), the constellation honors the centaur Chiron, who was tutor to many of the earlier Greek heroes including Heracles ( Hercules ), Theseus, and Jason, the leader of the Argonauts.

In ancient literature, we find a reference to the workings of water-powered marble saws close to Trier, now Germany, by the late 4th century poet Ausonius ; about the same time, these mill types seem also to be indicated by the Christian saint Gregory of Nyssa from Anatolia, demonstrating a diversified use of water-power in many parts of the Roman Empire.

* 65 BC – Horace, Roman poet ( d. 8 BC )

** Argonautica by Gaius Valerius Flaccus ( Roman poet, Greek mythology )

** Thebaid and Achilleid by Statius ( Roman poet, Greek mythology )

Epigram is associated with ' point ' because the European epigram tradition takes the Latin poet Martial as its principal model ; he copied and adapted Greek models ( particularly the contemporary poets Lucillius and Nicarchus ) selectively and in the process redefined the genre, aligning it with the indigenous Roman tradition of ' satura ', hexameter satire, as practised by ( among others ) his contemporary Juvenal.

Gerard Manley Hopkins ( 28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889 ) was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets.

The poet Lucretius is its most known Roman proponent.

The classical hendecasyllable is a quantitative meter used in Ancient Greece in Aeolic verse and in scolia, and later by the Roman poet Catullus.

The first Latin poet to write on a Roman theme was Gnaeus Naevius during the 200s BC.

Other sources, including the Roman poet Ovid, claim instead that Lycaon ’ s punishment was transformation into a wolf, an early example of lycanthropy.

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

The Roman poet Virgil called it " that castled cliff, Monoecus by the sea " ( Aeneid, VI. 830 ).

Conversely, the Roman poet Ovid provides a second etymology, in which he says that the month of May is named for the maiores, Latin for " elders ," and that the following month ( June ) is named for the iuniores, or " young people " ( Fasti VI. 88 ).

In Greek mythology, the Minotaur (,, Etruscan Θevrumineś ), was a creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, " part man and part bull ".

* 39 – Lucan, Roman poet ( d. 65 )

Тhe myth of Narcissus has inspired artists for at least two thousand years, even before the Roman poet Ovid featured a version in book III of his Metamorphoses.

The Roman poet Horace mentions it in reference to his own diet, which he describes as very simple: " As for me, olives, endives, and smooth mallows provide sustenance.

* Ausonius, Roman poet and rhetorician

* Ausonius, Roman poet and rhetorician ( d. 395 )

In 379 Ausonius was awarded the consulate, the highest Roman honor.

Edward Gibbon pronounced in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that " the poetical fame of Ausonius condemns the taste of his age.

* J. R. Martindale: ' Decimius Magnus Ausonius ', in The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire.

* S. Dill, ' The Society Of Aquitaine In The Time Of Ausonius ', in S. Dill, Roman Society In The Last Century Of The Western Empire ( 2nd.

The earliest literary reference to a working sawmill comes from a Roman poet, Ausonius who wrote an epic poem about the river Moselle in Germany in the late 4th century AD.

Viticulture was certainly flourishing in the area by the 4th century when the Roman poet Ausonius wrote a poem about the beauty of the land at harvest time.

The Kyll (), noted by the Roman poet Ausonius as Celbis, is a 142km long river in western Germany ( North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate ), left tributary of the Moselle.

In 45 BC, after the Roman Civil War ended at the Battle of Munda, Híspalis built city walls and a forum, completed in 49 BC, as it grew into one of the preeminent cities of Hispania ; the Latin poet Ausonius ranked it tenth among the most important cities of the Roman Empire.

* Adrian Goldsworthy ( born 1969 ), British historian and author who writes mostly about ancient Roman history

Church, Ministry and Sacraments in the New Testament Paternoster Press: 1993, p. 94f </ ref > He also points out that when Ignatius writes to the Romans, there is no mention of a bishop of the Roman Church, " which we may suppose had not not yet adopted the monarchical episcopate.

Suetonius claims that Caligula was already cruel and vicious: he writes that, when Tiberius brought Caligula to Capri, his purpose was to allow Caligula to live in order that he "... prove the ruin of himself and of all men, and that he was rearing a viper for the Roman People and a Phaëton for the world.

Tacitus writes that the Praetorian Prefect, Macro, smothered Tiberius with a pillow to hasten Caligula's accession, much to the joy of the Roman people, while Suetonius writes that Caligula may have carried out the killing, though this is not recorded by any other ancient historian.

He writes: " Archaeology indicates that Roman Mithraism had its epicenter in Rome ... the fully developed religion known as Mithraism seems to have begun in Rome and been carried to Syria by soldiers and merchants.

In the article “ Bellum Philippicum: Some Roman and Greek Views Concerning the Causes of the Second Macedonian War ”, E. J. Bickerman writes that “ the causes of the fateful war … were vividly debated among both Greeks and Romans ”.

A fermented fish sauce called garum was a staple of Greco-Roman cuisine and of the Mediterranean economy of the Roman Empire, as the first-century encyclopaedist Pliny the Elder writes in Historia Naturalis and the fourth / fifth-century connoisseur Apicius relates in his collection of recipes.

* 1199: Pope Innocent III writes to Kaloyan, inviting him to unite the Bulgarian Church with the Roman Catholic Church.

* Pomponius Mela, Roman geographer, writes De situ orbis libri ( probable date ).

* The Roman jurist Sabinus writes three books on the rights of citizens.

* Plutarch writes his Parallel Lives of Famous Men ( in Greek Βίοι Παράλληλοι ) containing fifty biographies, of which 46 are presented as pairs comparing Greek and Roman celebrities — for example Theseus and Romulus, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, Demosthenes and Cicero.

* Augustine of Hippo, age 59, begins to writes his spiritual book De Civitate Dei ( City of God ) as a reply to the charge that Christianity was responsible for the decline of the Roman Empire.

* Appian writes Ρωμαικα, known in English as the Roman History, in which he includes the history of each nation conquered up until the moment of its conquest.

* Leonardo Fibonacci writes Liber Abaci, about the modus Indorum, the numbering method of India ; it is the first major work in Europe toward moving away from the use of Roman numerals.

Tacitus writes that after Julius Caesar's assassination, a temple in honour of Isis had been decreed ; Augustus suspended this, and tried to turn Romans back to the Roman deities who were closely associated with the state.

* The Roman encyclopaedist Pliny the Elder, in Natural History II. vi. 39, writes that the planet Mercury can be viewed " sometimes before sunrise and sometimes after sunset, but according to Cidenas and Sosigenes never more than 22 degrees away from the sun ".

Paul K. Davis writes, " Constantine ’ s victory gave him total control of the Western Roman Empire paving the way for Christianity to become the dominant religion for the Roman Empire and ultimately for Europe.

Livy, reporting the evidence given by a woman who had been involved in the rites to a Roman investigative consul, writes:

James J Greene writes on the subject: “ If one of the seminally powerful myths in the cultural memory of our past is Aeneas ' rejection of his African queen in order to go on and found the Roman empire, than it is surely significant that Shakespeare's ... depicts precisely and quite deliberately the opposite course of action from that celebrated by Virgil.

Bell, Jr. writes mysteries set in the Roman Empire with Pliny the younger as sleuth and Tacitus as sidekick.

* Gillian Bradshaw, a classical scholar, writes historical fiction set in Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Duchy of Brittany, the Byzantine Empire, Saka and the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Imperial Rome, Sub-Roman Britain and Roman Britain.

Bede writes that the dispute was brought to a head by Oswiu's son Eahlfrith, who had adopted Roman usages at the urging of Wilfrid.