Seneca, Moral Epistles 90.20

“It is incredible how easily the sweetness of speech leads even great men away from the truth”

incredibilest . . . quam facile etiam magnos viros dulcedo orationis abducat a vero.

Seneca the Younger

Pindar, Nemean 8.24

 

“No memory awaits the brave-hearted man who is speechless”

 

ἦ τιν’ ἄγλωσσον μέν, ἦτορ δ’ ἄλκιμον, λάθα κατέχει

 

The Nemean odes were written in honor of victors at the Nemean games, held, of course, at Nemea.