Quotes: Ancient to Medieval

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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? Caesar Cicero Virgil Cato the Elder

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

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? Lucian Terence Tertullian 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