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Quotes: Ancient to Medieval

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Quotes Ancient to Medieval game quiz
"These quotes should turn you on intellectually. If nothing else, they are certainly meant to arouse thought...try them if you will!"

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1. Which Greek philosopher espoused the theory: 'Nature abhors a vacuum'?
    Aristotle
    Thales
    Empedocles
    Socrates


2. Thomas Jefferson was credited with the phrase 'E pluribus unum', but from what ancient Roman did Jefferson obtain this idea?
    Virgil
    Cato the Elder
    Cicero
    Caesar


3. Which writer coined the Golden Mean, 'aurea mediocritas'?
    Lucullus
    Horace
    Lucan
    Phaedras


4. Shakespeare wrote in Othello 'will as tenderly be led by the nose, as asses are', but from which writer did he obtain the idea?
    Tertullian
    Lucian
    Terence
    Pliny


5. Which writer took the phrase 'a thousand ships form a Greek union' and combined it to say 'the face that launched a thousand ships'?
    Jonson
    Pope
    Milton
    Marlowe


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