Persius Quotes


Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.


Citations

Persius. Juvenal and Persius. Translated by G. G. Ramsay, Loeb Classical Library 91, Harvard University Press, 1918, p. 349. (Satire 3, lines 71-72).

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Persius
  • Born: December 4, 0034
  • Died: November 24, 0062
  • Nationality: Italian
  • Profession: Poet

Aulus Persius Flaccus was a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin. In his works, poems and satires, he shows a Stoic wisdom and a strong criticism for what he considered to be the stylistic abuses of his poetic contemporaries. His works, which became very popular in the Middle Ages, were published after his death by his friend and mentor, the Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Cornutus.