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		<title>Virgil -- The Aeneid [Ænē̆is], Book  2, l. 353ff (2.353-354) [Aeneas] (29-19 BC) [tr. Fagles (2006), l. 443ff]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[But let us die, go plunging into the thick of battle. One hope saves the defeated: they know they can’t be saved! [Moriamur et in media arma ruamus. Una salus victis, nullam sperare salutem.] (Source (Latin)). Other translations: Then let&#8217;s incounter death, fall bravely on, Vanquish&#8217;d men&#8217;s safety is to hope for none. [tr. Ogilby [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But let us die, go plunging into the thick of battle.<br />
One hope saves the defeated: they know they can’t be saved!</p>
<p><em>[Moriamur et in media arma ruamus.<br />
Una salus victis, nullam sperare salutem.]</em></p>
<br><b>Virgil</b> (70–19 BC) Roman poet [b. Publius Vergilius Maro; also Vergil]<br><i>The Aeneid [Ænē̆is]</i>, Book  2, l. 353ff (2.353-354) [Aeneas] (29-19 BC) [tr. Fagles (2006), l. 443ff] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Aeneid/okrFGPoJb6cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22saves%20the%20defeated%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0055%3Abook%3D2%3Acard%3D347#:~:text=Una%20salus%20victis%2C%20nullam%20sperare%20salutem.">Source (Latin)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>



<blockquote>Then let's incounter death, fall bravely on,<br>
Vanquish'd men's safety is to hope for none.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A65106.0001.001/1:6.2?rgn=div2;view=fulltext#:~:text=Then%20let%27s%20incounter,hope%20for%20none.">Ogilby</a> (1649)]</blockquote><br>




<blockquote>Then let us fall, but fall amidst our foes:<br>
Despair of life the means of living shows.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aeneid_(Dryden)/Book_II#:~:text=Despair%20of%20life%20the%20means%20of%20living%20shows.">Dryden</a> (1697)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Let us meet death, and rush into the thickest of our armed foes. The only safety for the vanquished is to throw away all hopes of safety.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Works_of_Virgil/GuFCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22safety%20for%20the%20vanquished%22">Davidson/Buckley</a> (1854)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Come -- rush we on our fate.<br>
No safety may the vanquished find<br>
Till hope of safety be resigned.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aeneid_(Conington_1866)/Book_2#:~:text=Till%20hope%20of%20safety%20be%20resigned">Conington</a> (1866)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Let us die,<br>
And plunge into the middle of the fight. <br>
The only safety of the vanquished is<br>
To hope for none.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidvirgiltra00crangoog/page/n77/mode/2up?q=%22safety+of+the+vanquished%22">Cranch</a> (1872)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Let us die, and rush on their encircling weapons. The conquered have one safety, to hope for none.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/22456/pg22456-images.html#:~:text=Let%20us%20die%2C%20and%20rush%20on%20their%20encircling%20weapons.%20The%20conquered%20have%20one%20safety%2C%20to%20hope%20for%20none.">Mackail</a> (1885)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Fall on a very midst the fire and die in press of war!<br>
One hope there is for vanquished men, to cherish hope no more.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29358/pg29358-images.html#:~:text=Fall%20on%20a,hope%20no%20more.">Morris</a> (1900)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Forward, then,<br>
To die and mingle in the tumult's blare.<br>
Sole hope to vanquished men of safety is despair.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18466/pg18466-images.html#:~:text=Sole%20hope%20to%20vanquished%20men%20of%20safety%20is%20despair">Taylor</a> (1907), st. 47, l. 421ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Let us fight<br>
unto the death! To arms, my men, to arms!<br>
The single hope and stay of desperate men<br>
is their despair.<br>
[tr. <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D2%3Acard%3D347#:~:text=The%20single%20hope%20and%20stay%20of%20desperate%20men">Williams</a> (1910)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Let us die, and rush into the midst of arms. One safety the vanquished have, to hope for none!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/L063NVirgilIEcloguesGeorgicsAeneid16/page/n329/mode/2up?q=wolves">Fairclough</a> (1916)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">So let us die,<br>
Rush into arms. One safety for the vanquished<br>
Is to have hope of none.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61596/pg61596-images.html#:~:text=So%20let%20us,hope%20of%20none.">Humphries</a> (1951)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Let us die, let us charge into the battle's heart!<br>
Losers have one salvation -- to give up all hope of salvation.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aenei00virg/page/44/mode/2up?q=wolves">Day Lewis</a> (1952)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Then let<br>
us rush to arms and die. The lost have only<br>
this one deliverance: to hope for none.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidofvirgil100virg/page/40/mode/2up?q=wolves">Mandelbaum</a> (1971), l. 477ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Come, let us die,<br>
We'll make a rush into the thick of it.<br>
The conquered have one safety: hope for none.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneid00virg/page/46/mode/2up?q=%22conquered+have+one+safety%22">Fitzgerald</a> (1981), l. 470ff]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Let us die. Let us rush into the thick of the fighting. The one safety for the defeated is to have no hope of safety.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/aeneidvirg00virg/page/40/mode/2up?q=%22safety+for+the+defeated%22">West</a> (1990)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Let us die and rush into battle.<br>
The beaten have one refuge, to have no hope of refuge.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/VirgilAeneidII.php#anchor_Toc536009309:~:text=let%20us%20die,hope%20of%20refuge.">Kline</a> (2002)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">All that is left for us<br>
Is to rush onto swords and die. The only chance<br>
For the conquered is to hope for none.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Aeneid/KGG_69G7uQ0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22hope%20for%20none%22">Lombardo</a> (2005)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Let us die even as we rush into the thick of the fight. The only safe course for the defeated is to expect no safety.<br>
[<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Routledge_Dictionary_of_Latin_Quotat/fUG81l1K4EYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22nullam+sperare+salutem%22&pg=PA278&printsec=frontcover">Routledge</a> (2005)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Let's die by plunging into war. Our only refuge is to have no hope of refuge.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Aeneid/FioVEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=bartsch%20aeneid&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22plunging%20into%20war%22">Bartsch</a> (2021)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Rommel, Erwin -- The Rommel Papers, ch. 11 [ed. B. H. Liddell Hart, (1953)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.</p>
<br><b>Erwin Rommel</b> (1891–1944) German field marshal<br><i>The Rommel Papers</i>, ch. 11 [ed. B. H. Liddell Hart, (1953)] 
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