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Gnaeus Marcius Vates was a Roman politician and orator. Little is known of his life, but three fragments of his praecepta have survived as Old Latin quotations in the works of later grammarians.

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  • Postremus dicas, primus taceas.
    • Be last to speak, first to keep silence.
    • Quoted by Isidore of Seville, Origines, 6, 8, 12
    • Tr. Thomas FitzHugh, "The Origin of Verse", Bulletin of the School of Latin, no. 8 (University of Virginia, 1 January 1915), p. 11

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