Plautus, Addictus
“I really prefer work more than sleeping…”
opus facere nimio quam dormire mauolo:
Boeotia, fr 1
“I hope the gods destroy the guy who invented hours”
par ut illum di perdant, primus qui horas repperit
Commorientes
“I’d jump headfirst into a well…”
saliam in puteum praecipes
Frivolaria, fr. 6
“You should do what you do eagerly, not by force!”
naue agere oportet quod agas, non ductarier.
Uncertain
Fr. 12
“Despite his age and gray hair, he’s a fool”
stultus est aduorsum aetatem et capitis canitudinem.
Fr. 42
“Why are you muttering and torturing yourself?”
quid murmurillas tecum et te discrucias?
fr. 47
“Be my enemy until I come back”
inimicus esto, donicum ego reuenero
