| Suetonius - Emperors - 1890 - 614 pages
...that Caesar used to have frequently in his mouth two verses of Euripides, which he thus translates : Nam si violandum est jus, regnandi gratia Violandum est : aliis rebus pietatem colas. Be just, unless a kingdom tempts to break the laws, For sovereign power alone can justify the cause.1... | |
| Suetonius - Emperors - 1896 - 576 pages
...that Caesar used to have frequently in his mouth two verses of Euripides, which he thus translates : Nam si violandum est jus, regnandi gratia Violandum est : aliis rebus pietatem colas. Be just, unless a kingdom tempts to break the laws, For sovereign power alone can justify the cause.... | |
| Alcide Macé - 1900 - 478 pages
...Officiis tertio libro semper Caesarem in ore habuisse (11) Euripidis versus, quos sic ipse convertit : Nam si violandum est jus, regnandi gratia Violandum est : aliis rebus pietatem colas. » Certes, nous ne prétendons pas que Suétone n'ait jamais lu le de Officiis, le contraire est certain.... | |
| Ch Boulen - 1903 - 68 pages
...pris cette devise, dont il pratiquait rigoureusement la première maxime, sans observer la seconde : Nam si violandum est jus, regnandi gratia Violandum est : aliis rebus pietatem colas (2). Tel fut celui qui s'acharna, sans pitié, contre les Eburons et couvrit des cendres de l'incendie... | |
| William Francis Henry King - Proverbs - 1904 - 500 pages
...Urge a bad cause with boundless impudence, And 'twill be thought by many innocence. — Ed. 1 607. Nam si violandum est jus, regnandi gratia Violandum est: aliis rebus pietatem colas. Csesar ap. Cic. OS. 3, 21, 82. A tr. of Eur. Phcen. 524 (Eteocles loq.) :— etwtp -yip ASiKfiv Xfril,... | |
| Frederick Warren Sanford, Harry Fletcher Scott - Latin language - 1923 - 652 pages
...fuisse existimatur; 30 dictus autem est semper hos versus Eunpidis, Graecl poetae, in ore habuisse: "Nam si violandum est jus, regnandi gratia Violandum est, aliis rebus pietatem colas." Aedilis praeter comitium ac forum etiam Capitolium orna- 35 vit porticibus. Venationes autem ludosque... | |
| Meyer Kayserling - Jews - 1972 - 394 pages
...autt'm socer in ire semp- Graecos versus de Phoenissis habebat, quos dicani , ut potero, incondite fortasse, sed tamen, ut res possit intelligi : Nam si violandum est jus, regnandi gratia Violandumest: 805) Dieses Stück, dessen Inhalt hier kurz angegeben ist, soll von einem Buchhändler,... | |
| David Willemse - Medicine - 1966 - 276 pages
...m'avoit permis, & que je ne devrois pas copier la moindre partie du MS, a quoi je vous repond avec Caesar Nam si violandum est jus, regnandi gratia violandum est; aliis rebus pietatem colas. J'estimois & j'estime encore tout ce qui ait sorti de la main du Grand Boerhaave comm'un Empire, ou... | |
| Jon R. Stone - Quotations, Latin - 2005 - 413 pages
...late to turn from the errors of our ways: the one who repents of his sins is almost innocent (Seneca) nam si violandum est jus, regnandi gratia violandum est: aliis rebus pietatem colas: if you must break the law, do it only to seize power: in all other cases, observe it (Julius Ca;sar)... | |
| John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1871 - 566 pages
...Despots in all ages have made very free with oaths. With them petjury is among the arts of state. " Nam, si violandum est jus, regnandi gratia Violandum est : aliis rebus pietatem colas." Cicero, Off. iii. 21.— ED. And if the king may deny to pass what the parliament hath chosen to be... | |
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