Horace, Epistles 1.19.48-9

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“Sport tends to give rise to heated strife and anger,
anger in turns brings savage feuds and war to the death”.

ludus enim genuit trepidum certamen et iram,
ira truces inimicitias et funebre bellum.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus

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