Quod Numquam Dixerunt - Fake Classical Quotations

So, you think that clever little quotation that magically speaks directly to the point you want to make comes from an old Greek or Roman, from some old classical text, or from an ancient inscription. It's as if those ancients knew exactly what we twenty-first century folks would be thinking about! Well, check it carefully, first. Many sources, both printed and electronic, give for quotations only an attribution to a particular author. Seldom do they give an actual source (the title of the work and a chapter or line number, or the name of the translator, the publication information about his/her translation, and a chapter or page number) because often there is no real source - the attribution is false! In following entries you will find a summary of the results of research I have done to answer various questions over the years about the source of certain quotations or supposed quotations from Latin or Greek sources.