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Three state motets, Carole, magnus eras, Caesar habet naves validas and Quis te victorem dicat, point to a relation with Charles V from 1544 to 1549.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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He calls him the vanquisher of the world — “victorem orbis terrarum.”
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Magnis in laudibus totâ fuit Græciâ, victorem Olympiæ citari.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Sese quisque praeda locupletem fore, victorem domum rediturum, alia hujuscemodi animis trahebant, [442] et eos non paulum oratione sua Marius arrexerat.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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"Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit", but it was Greece enriched this time with the inheritance of Antioch, Ephesus, and Alexandria, while the culture that now travelled west. and north found ultimately a more responsive soil than it had ever met with in Latium.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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“Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit, et artes intulit agresti Latio”.
The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881
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If England vanquished your country's arms, it was through you that France _ferum victorem cepit_, and restored the dynasty of Comedy to the land whence she had been driven.
Letters to Dead Authors Andrew Lang 1878
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"_Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit_" -- "Her ruthless conqueror Greece has overcome."
Horace Theodore Martin 1862
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"Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit, et artes intulit agresti Latio".
Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848
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Constantio quem credebat procul dubio fore victorem; nemo enim omnium tunc ab hac constanti sententia discrepebat.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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