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Marcius Vates
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Gnaeus Marcius Vates was a Roman politician and orator. Little is known of his life, but three fragments of his praecepta have survived as Old Latin quotations in the works of later grammarians.
Quotes
Postremus dicas, primus taceas.
Be last to speak, first to keep silence.
Quoted by Isidore of Seville, Origines, 6, 8, 12
Tr. Thomas FitzHugh, "The Origin of Verse", Bulletin of the School of Latin, no. 8 (University of Virginia, 1 January 1915), p. 11
See also
Appius Claudius Caecus
External links
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Willy Morrel, Fragmenta Poetarum Latinorum (1927), p. 6
Category:Authors from Rome