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‖ væ|vaɪ|
Also 6 ve.
[L. væ alas!]
†1. A denunciation or threatening of woe. Obs.
1559Abp. Parker Corr. (Parker Soc.) 79 We should..deserve the wrathful væ and vengeance of God. 1584Lodge Alarm agst. Usurers F iiij, The Lord shal place you among the goates, and pronounce his Ve against you. 1602W. Watson Quodl. Relig. & State 9 With how many væes and woes to you Scribes and Pharisees did he come vpon them? a1636T. Westcote View Devonsh. (1845) 61 There was a væ or woe pronounced against them in these words,—‘Woe unto you Piltonians, that make cloth without wool’.
2. væ victis [Livy Hist. V. xlviii. 9].
a. int. Woe to the vanquished.
b. n. phr. The humiliation of the vanquished by their conquerors; the phrase as a maxim or utterance.
1612J. Selden in Drayton Poly-Olbion viii. 124 Whence, vpun a murmuring complaint among the Romanes, crying væ victis, came that to be as prouerbe applied to the conquered. 1792Burke Let. 3 Jan. in M. Arnold Lett., Speeches & Tracts on Irish Affairs (1881) 259, I cannot say væ victis, and then throw the sword into the scale. 1819Scott Ivanhoe I. ii. 39 The vae victis, or severities imposed upon the vanquished. 1856M. Bernard in Oxford Ess. II. ii. 90 The stonecutter has laboured to produce a vigorous representation of the vae victis—of triumphant pride and abject humiliation. 1904G. K. Fortescue in Cambr. Mod. Hist. (1907) VIII. xvi. 512 Vae victis was one of the few unchanging revolutionary maxims. 1936J. Nehru Autobiogr. l. 401 Vae victis seems to run like a thread through these utterances. 1944S. Bellow Dangling Man 112 Life is hard. Vae victis! The wretched must suffer. |