Lucius Afranius (poet)

Lucius Afranius was an ancient Roman comic poet who lived at the beginning of the 1st century BC. Quotes Si possent homines delenimentis capi,Omnes haberent nunc amatores anus.Aetas et corpus tenerum et morigeratio,Haec sunt uenena formosarum mulierum:Mala aetas nulla delenimenta inuenit. If one might capture men with magic philtres,Lovers would swarm round every toothless crone.A dainty body, youth, obliging ways—These be the philtres handsome women use:Old age has none of these—and these are all. Fragment of Vopiscus; Kirby Flower Smith, "Note on Satyros, Life of Euripides, Oxyr. Pap. 9, 157–8", American Journal of Philology, Vol. 34 (1913), p. 64 Cp. Euripides, Andromache, 205; Lucretius, IV, 1278; Tibullus, I, 5, 43 & I, 8, 23; Ovid, Medicamina Faciei Femineae, 35 & Ars Amatoria, II, 99; Plutarch, Moralia, 141B Alius est amor, alius cupido. Love is one thing, lust another. Fragment of Cinerarius; Jon R. Stone, Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations (2005), p. 367 Amabit sapiens, cupient caeteri. Wise men love, others are mere lechers. Fragment of Omen; Richard A. Branyon, Latin Phrases & Quotations (1994), p. 12 Isto parentum est vita vilis liberis,Ubi malunt metui, quam vereri se ab suis. Children hold a sire's life cheap,Where rather feared than honoured he would be. Fragment of Consobrinis, quoted by Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, XV, xiii, 3; John C. Rolfe, The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, Vol. 3, LCL 212 (1927), pp. 92–3 Usus me genuit, mater peperit Memoria.Sophiam vocant me Grai, vos Sapientiam. My sire Experience was, me Memory bore,In Greece called Sophia, Wisdom in Rome. Fragment of Sella, quoted by Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, XIII, viii, 3; John C. Rolfe, The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, Vol. 2, LCL 200 (1927), pp. 430–1 Formosa virgo est; dotis dimidium vocantIsti, qui dotes neglegunt uxorias. The girl is pretty; this is half a dowry, say men who aren't interested in a dowry. Unassigned fragment; Norbert Gutterman, A Book of Latin Quotations (1966), p. 47 External links Category:Poets from Rome Category:Latin authors