| 单词 | vae victis |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvae victis 2. vae victis [Livy Hist. V. xlviii. 9] . extracted from vaen. a. int. Woe to the vanquished. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > shout of triumph [interjection] io paean1592 victory1595 vae victis1612 victoria1639 1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion viii. Illustr. 124 Whence, vpon a murmuring complaint among the Romanes, crying Væ victis, came that to be as prouerbe applied to the conquered. 1792 Burke 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. 1944 S. Bellow Dangling Man 112 Life is hard. Vae victis! The wretched must suffer. b. n.phr. The humiliation of the vanquished by their conquerors; the phrase as a maxim or utterance. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > humiliation of vanquished by conquerors vae victis1819 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. ii. 39 The vae victis, or severities imposed upon the vanquished. 1856 M. Bernard in Oxf. Ess. II. ii. 90 The stonecutter has laboured to produce a vigorous representation of the vae victis—of triumphant pride and abject humiliation. 1904 G. K. Fortescue in Cambr. Mod. Hist. (1907) VIII. xvi. 512 Vae victis was one of the few unchanging revolutionary maxims. 1936 J. Nehru Autobiogr. l. 401 Vae victis seems to run like a thread through these utterances. < as lemmas |
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