Vulgus Quotes
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Odi profanum vulgus et arceo; Favete linguis; carmina non prius Audita Musarum sacerdos Virginibus puerisque canto. I despise the uninitiated mob and I warn them off: keep your tongues well-omened; I, priest of the Muses, am singing songs, never heard before, to girls and boys.
— Odes, bk.3, no.1, l.1-4 (translated by G Williams).
Sævitque animis ignobile vulgus, Jamque faces et saxa volant.
virgil— The rude rabble are enraged; now firebrands and stones fly.
— Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), I. 149.
Scinditur incertum studia in contraria vulgus.
virgil— The uncertain multitude is divided by opposite opinions.
— Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), II. 39.
Malignum Spernere vulgus.
— To scorn the ill-conditioned rabble.
— Horace, Odes, Book II. 16, 39.
Odi profanum vulgus et ardeo. Favete linguis.
— I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence).
— Horace, Odes, Book III. 1. ("Favete linguis" also found in Cicero, Ovid).
Neque mala, vel bona, quæ vulgus putet.
— The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good.
— Tacitus, Annales (AD 117), Book VI. 22.
Sævitque animis ignobile vulgus, Jamque faces et saxa volant.
— The rude rabble are enraged; now firebrands and stones fly.
— Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), I. 149.
Scinditur incertum studia in contraria vulgus.
— The uncertain multitude is divided by opposite opinions.
— Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), II. 39.
Vilia miretur vulgus; mihi flavus Apollo Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua.
— Let the crowd delight in things of no value; to me let the golden-haired Apollo minister full cups from the Castalian spring (the fountain of Parnassus).
— Ovid, Amorum (16 BC), Book I. 15. 35. Motto on title-page of Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis." Another reading: "Castaliæ aquæ," of the Castalian spring.
Tacitumque a principe vulgus dissidet, et, qui mos populis, venturus amatur.
— The crowd is at silent odds with the prince. As is the way of a populace, the man of the future is the favourite.
— Bk. 1, line 169
vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa æstimat.
cicero— The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.
— Cicero, Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comœdo, X. 29.
vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa æstimat.
— The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.
— Cicero, Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comœdo, X. 29.
vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.
— A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
— Tacitus, Annales (AD 117), Book III. 58.
