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Et primo ferri motu prosternite mundum;sitque palam, quas tot duxit Pompeius in urbemcurribus, unius gentes non esse triumphi.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
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Et primo ferri motu prosternite mundum; sitque palam, quas tot duxit Pompeius in urbem curribus, unius gentes non esse triumphi.


— One stroke of sword and all the world is yours.
Make plain to all men that the crowds who decked
Pompeius' hundred pageants scarce were fit
For one poor triumph.
— Book VII, line 278 (translated by Sir Edward Ridley).

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