The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat
Res angusta domi.
It’s not easy for people to rise out of obscurity when they have to face straitened circumstances
at home.
‘Satires’ no. 3, l. 164
Omnia Romae
Cum pretio.
Everything in Rome has its price.
‘Satires’ no. 3, l. 183
Rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cycno.
A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.
‘Satires’ no. 6, l. 165
Hoc volo, sic iubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas.
I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.
‘Satires’ no. 6, l. 223
‘Pone seram, cohibe.’ Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? Cauta est et ab illis incipit uxor.
‘Bolt her in, keep her indoors.’ But who is to guard the guards themselves? Your wife arranges
accordingly and begins with them.
‘Satires’ no. 6, l. 347
Tenet insanabile multos
Scribendi cacoethes et aegro in corde senescit.
Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.
‘Satires’ no. 7, l. 51
Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori
Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.
Count it the greatest sin to prefer mere existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the
reasons for living.
‘Satires’ no. 8, l. 83
Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.
Travel light and you can sing in the robber’s face.
‘Satires’ no. 10, l. 22
Verbosa et grandis epistula venit
A Capreis.
A huge wordy letter came from Capri.
On the Emperor Tiberius’s letter to the Senate, which caused the downfall of Sejanus in A.D. 31; ‘Satires’ no.
10, l. 71
Duas tantum res anxius optat,
Panem et circenses.