Ennius

From this, and by the belief of our own people, Romulus dwells in heaven and passes his days with the gods, as Ennius said, assenting to the common report;

Were it not so, how could Ennius have said, with the assent of all, 'Behold this gleaming vault on high, whom all men call upon as Jove' — and that very god both Jove, and lord of all things, and ruler of all by his motion, and, as the same Ennius says, 'the father of gods and men,' a god present and all-powerful?

If any person should prevent any other person from taking fire from his fire or a light from his torch, I should accuse him of violating the law of human society, because that is the essence of its very nature, as Ennius has said:

Do you suppose that Ennius, when he had walked in his gardens with his neighbour Servius Galba, said, "I seemed to myself to be walking with Galba"?

'Too much of good has he, to whom there is no evil.

Nonius, 417M] "On ancient manners and on men the Roman state stands," says Ennius—a verse which, whether for its brevity or for its truth, seems to me to have been uttered by him as though from some oracle.