Postquam bis classe victus naves perdidit, Aliquando ut vincat, ludit assidue aleam.
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He took a beating twice at sea, And threw two fleets away. So now to achieve one victory, He tosses dice all day.
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A popular rhyme at the time of the Sicilian war, mocking Augustus' habit of playing dice; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 70. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.Augustus
Otium et reges prius et beatas
perdidit urbes.Gaius Valerius Catullus
Iudaeos impulsore Chresto assidue tumultuantis Roma expulit.
Suetonius
Restait en dernier lieu la classe superstitieuse des ignorants; ceux-lá ne se contentent pas d'ignorer, ils savent ce qui n'est pas.
Jules Verne
Lumen aliquando per sui communicationem reddit obscuriorem superficiem corporis aliunde, ac prius illustratam.
Francesco Maria Grimaldi
Sum pius Aeneas, raptos qui ex hoste Penates
classe veho mecum, fama super aethera notus.
Italiam quaero patriam et genus ab Iove summo.Virgil
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