Ut pueri infantes credunt signa omnia aena vivere et esse h… - Gaius Lucilius

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Ut pueri infantes credunt signa omnia aena
vivere et esse homines, sic isti somnia ficta
vera putant, credunt signis cor inesse in aenis.
Pergula pictorum, veri nil, omnia ficta.

Gaius Lucilius

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Gaius Lucilius (180, 168 or 148 – 103 BC) was the earliest Roman satirist, of whose writings only fragments remain. A Roman citizen of the equestrian class, he was born at Suessa Aurunca in Campania, and was a member of the Scipionic Circle.

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Alternative Names: Lucilius • Caius Lucilius

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As baby children believe that all bronze statues are alive and are men, so these (superstitious grown-ups) think the fictions of dreams are real, and believe that bronze statues have a living heart inside. These things are a painters' gallery, nothing real, all make-believe.

Homini amico et familiari non est mentiri meum.

Frédéric Buret, Syphilis To-day and among the Ancients, tr. A. H. Ohmann-Dumesnil, vol. 1 (F. A. Davis, 1891), pp. 179–80

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