Mark where his carnage and his conquests cease!
He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace.

Lord Byron
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
Bride of Abydos, Canto 2, st. 20, ll. 425-26 (1813)
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See Tacitus.

 
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