Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... Julius Caesar , act v . sc . 5 , 11. 73-5 ( Mark Antony ) . See Oh , Pitt never was a boy ! This is the head of a traitor . Formula used by the headsman at executions for treason , holding up the decapitated head in view of the people ...
... Julius Caesar , act v . sc . 5 , 11. 73-5 ( Mark Antony ) . See Oh , Pitt never was a boy ! This is the head of a traitor . Formula used by the headsman at executions for treason , holding up the decapitated head in view of the people ...
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... JULIUS CAESAR ( 100-44 B.C . ) —— Plutarch , Lives : Cæsar , lvii ) . " Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once " -Shakspere , Julius Cæsar , act ii , sc . 2. ( Cæsar ) Βραδέως ἐγχείρει ...
... JULIUS CAESAR ( 100-44 B.C . ) —— Plutarch , Lives : Cæsar , lvii ) . " Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once " -Shakspere , Julius Cæsar , act ii , sc . 2. ( Cæsar ) Βραδέως ἐγχείρει ...
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... JULIUS CAESAR ( 100-44 B.C . ) — when crossing the Alps on his way to Spain . Plutarch , Lives : Caesar , xi ) . Cf. Tel brille au second rang qui s'éclipse au premier . ( One shines in the second rank who is outshone in the first ) ...
... JULIUS CAESAR ( 100-44 B.C . ) — when crossing the Alps on his way to Spain . Plutarch , Lives : Caesar , xi ) . Cf. Tel brille au second rang qui s'éclipse au premier . ( One shines in the second rank who is outshone in the first ) ...
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... JULIUS CAESAR ( 100-44 B.C . ) — to a man bearing the eagle and running away . Caesar seized him by the neck and turned him round saying as above .- ( Plutarch , Lives : Caesar , lii ) . Ἔοικεν , ὦ ἄνδρες , ὅτε Δαρεῖον ἡμεῖς ἐνικῶμεν ...
... JULIUS CAESAR ( 100-44 B.C . ) — to a man bearing the eagle and running away . Caesar seized him by the neck and turned him round saying as above .- ( Plutarch , Lives : Caesar , lii ) . Ἔοικεν , ὦ ἄνδρες , ὅτε Δαρεῖον ἡμεῖς ἐνικῶμεν ...
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... JULIUS CAESAR ( 100-44 B.C . ) — Dying words , to Marcus Brutus , on his stabbing him in the Roman senate . ( Suetonius , Twelve Caesars , i , 82 ; Dio Cassius , xliv , 19 ; Shakspere , Julius Caesar , act iii , sc . I : " et tu , Brute ...
... JULIUS CAESAR ( 100-44 B.C . ) — Dying words , to Marcus Brutus , on his stabbing him in the Roman senate . ( Suetonius , Twelve Caesars , i , 82 ; Dio Cassius , xliv , 19 ; Shakspere , Julius Caesar , act iii , sc . I : " et tu , Brute ...
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ABBÉ alluding asked Attributed battle BENJAMIN DISRAELI Earl bien Biog c'est Cæsar CARDINAL Chamber of Deputies Charles COMTE death Dict Dieu Diogenes Laertius DUKE OF WELLINGTON Dying words Earl of Beaconsfield EDMUND BURKE Emperor enemy Engl England fait faut femme Français France French grand HENRY Hist homme honour House of Commons Hume j'ai jamais JOHN June king Last words Le Moniteur universel letter liberty Lives Lord LOUIS XIV Madam Mémoires MIRABEAU Molière Moniteur mort mourir n'est NAPOLEON nation never Paris Parliament Phocion phrase Plutarch PRESIDENT PRINCE BISMARCK Prussian qu'il qu'on Queen quoted referring Reichstag remark reply rien saying Sire soldiers speech Suetonius thou tion tout Voltaire W. E. GLADSTONE WELLINGTON 1769 WILLIAM γὰρ δὲ καὶ μὲν μὴ οὐ οὐκ τὴν τὸ Τὸν τοὺς