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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] 
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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>Arendt, Hannah -- Essay (1969-02-27), &#8220;Reflections on Violence,&#8221; The New York Review of Books</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.</p>
<br><b>Hannah Arendt</b> (1906–1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist<br>Essay (1969-02-27), &#8220;Reflections on Violence,&#8221; <i>The New York Review of Books</i> 
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<a href="https://archive.org/details/onviolence00aren/page/4/mode/2up?q=%22chief+reason+warfare%22">Revised and collected</a> in <i>On Violence</i>, ch.  1 (1970).

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