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I came, I saw, I conquered. Attributed to JULIUS CESAR.

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PLUTARCH

Life of Cæsar, states it was spoken after the defeat of Pharnaces, at Zela in Pontus, B. C. 47, not the Expedition to Britain, B. C. 55. According to SUETONIUS Julius Cæsar. 37, the words were not Cæsar's but were displayed before Cæsar's title, "non acta belli significantem, sicut ceteri, sed celeriter confecti notam." Not as being a record of the events of the war, as in other cases, but as an indication of the rapidity with which it was concluded. Ne insolens barbarus dicat, "Ueni, uidi, uici." Never shall insolent barbarian say "I came, I saw, I conquered." SENECA THE ELDER-Suasoria. II. 22. BUECHMANN, quoting the above, suggests that Cæsar's words may be an adaptation of a proverb by APOSTOLIUS. XII. 58. (Or XIV, in Elzivir Ed. Leyden, 1653.)

(See also HENRY IV, SOBIESKI)

In bello parvis momentis magni casus intercedunt.

In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

CESAR-Bellum Gallicum. I. 21.

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The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry. CAMPBELL-Hohenlinden.

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La Garde meurt, mais ne se rend pas.

The guard dies but does not surrender. Attributed to LIEUT. GEN. PIERRE JACQUES, BARON DE CAMBRONNE, when called to surrender by COL. HUGH HALKETT. Cambronne disavowed the saying at a banquet at Nantes, 1835. The London Times on the Centenary of the battle of Waterloo published a letter, written at 11 P. M. on the evening of the battle, by CAPT. DIGBY MACKWORTH, of the 7th Fusiliers, A. D. C. to Gen. Hill. In it the phrase is quoted as already familiar. FOURNIER in L'Esprit dans l'histoire, pp. 412-15, ascribes it to a correspondent of the Independant, ROUGEMONT. It appeared there the next day, and afterwards in the Journal General de France, June 24. This seems also improbable in view of the above mentioned letter. VICTOR HUGO-Les Miserables.

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See also Waterloo.

War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ. WM. ELLERY CHANNING-Lecture on War. Sec. II.

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O Chryste, it is a grief for me to telle,

How manie a noble erle and valrous knyghte In fyghtynge for Kynge Harrold noblie fell, Al sleyne on Hastyng's field in bloudie fyghte. CHATTERTON-Battle of Hastings.

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Bella suscipienda sunt ob eam causam, ut sine injuria in pace vivatur.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

CICERO-De Officiis. I. 11.

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Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.

An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. CICERO De Officiis. I. 22.

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Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quæsita videatur.

Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace.

CICERO De Officiis. I. 23.

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Silent leges inter arma.

The law is silent during war.

CICERO Oratio Pro Annio Milone. IV.

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Pro aris et focis.

For your altars and your fires.

CICERO Oration for Roscius. Ch. V. Also used by TIBERIUS GRACCHUS before this.

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Nervi belli pecunia infinita.

Endless money forms the sinews of war. CICERO Philippics. V. 2. 5. LIBANIUSOrations. XLVI. PHOTIUS-Lex. S. 5. RABELAIS Gargantua. Bk. I. Ch. XXVI. ("Corn" for "money.")

(See also HULL, PLUTARCH, also BION under MONEY)

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And fired the shot heard round the world. EMERSON-Hymn sung at the completion of the Concord Monument.

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That same man that renneth awaie
Maie fight again on other daie.

ERASMUS-Apothegms. Given as a saying of
Demosthenes, and quoted as a "verse com-
mon in every body's mouth." Tr. by UDALL.
(1542)
(See also BUTLER)

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Ares (the God of War) hates those who hesitate. EURIPIDES-Heraclida. 722.

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Jellicoe has all the Nelsonic attributes except one he is totally wanting in the great gift of insubordination.

LORD FISHER-Letter to a Privy Councillor. Dec. 27, 1916.

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My right has been rolled up. My left has been driven back. My center has been smashed. I have ordered an advance from all directions. GEN. FOCH-Letter to MARSHAL JOFFRE during the Battle of the Marne.

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Then came the attack in the Amiens sector on August 8. That went well, too. The moment had arrived. I ordered General Humbert to attack in his turn. "No reserves." No matter. Allez-y (Get on with it) I tell Marshal Haig to attack, too. He's short of men also. Attack all the same. There we are advancing everywhere -the whole line! En avant! Hup!

GEN. FOCH. In an interview with G. WARD PRICE, correspondent of London Daily Mail. (1919)

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We have 500,000 reservists in America who would rise in arms against your government. ZIMMERMANN to AMBASSADOR GERARD.

I told him that we had five hundred thousand and one lamp posts in America, and that was where the German reservists would find themselves if they tried any uprising.

AMBASSADOR GERARD'S answer. JAMES W. GERARD My Four Years in Germany. P. 237.

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It is an olde saw, he fighteth wele (well) that fleith faste.

Gesta Romanorum. Wolf and the Hare. 15th cent. MS.

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(See also BUTLER)

Neither ridiculous shriekings for revenge by French chauvinists, nor the Englishmen's gnashing of teeth, nor the wild gestures of the Slavs will turn us from our aim of protecting and extending German influence all the world over. Official secret report of the Germans, quoted in the French Yellow Book.

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Ye living soldiers of the mighty war,

Once more from roaring cannon and the drums And bugles blown at morn, the summons comes; Forget the halting limb, each wound and scar: Once more your Captain calls to you; Come to his last review!

R. W. GILDER-The Burial of Grant.

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popular. "Jingo," first used as a political term of reproach, by GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE, in a letter to the London Daily News, March 13, 1878.

He falls a-fighting it out of one hand into the other, tossing it this way and that; lets it run a little upon the line, then tanutus, high jingo, come again. Traced by the Oxford Dict. to JOHN EACHARD

Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of Clergy. 1670. P. 34. See also OLDHAMSatires upon the Jesuits. IV. (1679) "By Jingo" found in a trans. of RABELAIS-Pantagruel. Bk. IV. Ch. LV. Also in COWLEY -Cutter of Coleman Street, pub. 1663, performed, 1661. “By the living Jingo" in GOLDSMITH-Vicar of Wakefield. Ch. X.

The closeness of their intercourse [the intercourse of nations] will assuredly render war as absurd and impossible by-and-by, as it would be for Manchester to fight with Birmingham, or Holborn Hill with the Strand.

LEIGH HUNT-Preface to Poems.

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