The Europa Barbarorum Quotes Project

[Trax]

With the intoduction of the princesses in EBII this one might be appropriate.

Three different translations.

"There are two days when a woman is a pleasure: the day one marries her and the day one buries her."

"Woman is twice a pleasure to man,
The wedding night and her funeral."

"Two happy days a woman brings a man: the first, when he marries her; the second, when he bears her to the grave."

Hipponax "On women"

[oudysseos]

With the intoduction of the princesses in EBII

No princesses in EBII unless someone has a stroke of genius on how to break the hard-code.

[Trax]

Some texts of non Greek or Latin origin.
Perhaps not very good but just for the sake of diversity.

Concerning the conquest of Babylon by Ptolemy III

"That day, the people were slaughtered with iron weapons"
Ptolemy III Chronicle (BCHP 11)
http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicl...i_01.html#TEXT

Concerning the suppression of the revolt of native Egyptians in 186 BC.

"When it was announced to his Majesty through the mouth of a friend of his Majesty, who loves the king, by the chief of the cavalry Aristonikos son of Aristonikos, concerning Komanos, who is one of the first friends of his Majesty: "A battle took place in the South in the area of Thebes with the impious man, the fiend of the gods Hr–wnf and the troops of the Ethiopians, who had united with him, slaying them, seizing as captive this wicked men alive"

and

"On the 3rd of Mesore it was announced to his Majesty: Hr–wnf has been captured alive in the battle against him in year 19, on 24 Epeiph. His son was killed, the commander of the army of impious men, together with the leaders of the Ethiopians who fought on his side. He was brought to the place where the king was. He was punished by death for the crimes, which he had committed, and so were the other criminals, those who had rebelled in the sedition, which they had made."
Second decree of Philae
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~te...re/revolt.html

[echolot]

Iterum dicam, uicistis; nullum contemptu m[ortis incitamentum] ad uincendum homini ab dis immortalibus acrius datum est.

(I say again you are victors, no keener weapon has been put into men's hands by the immortal gods than a contempt for death.)

Hannibal to his men before battle Battle of Ticinus. Livy, Book XXI, 46.9