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The verb is غَزَا ghaza, "petivit," which in the second conjugation means, "expeditione bellica petivit hostem," and the noun in use is غَزَاة ghazah, "expeditione bellica."
A work so vast requires, I am aware, the united efforts of twenty Montesquieus; nevertheless, if it is not given to a single man to finish, a single one can commence, the enterprise. The road that he shall traverse will suffice to show the end and assure the result. Adversus hostem aeterna auctertas esto. Against the enemy, revendication is eternal.
Machiavelli's writings, for example, were solid enough for the subject, yet were they easy enough to be controverted; and they who have done so, have left as great a facility of controverting theirs; there was never wanting in that kind of argument replies and replies upon replies, and as infinite a contexture of debates as our wrangling lawyers have extended in favour of long suits: "Caedimur et totidem plagis consumimus hostem;"
Newman, we know what we are about and what to expect; "'Caedimur, et totidem plagis consumimus hostem. We give you a sharp cut and you return it.... But we at least have not professed to be composing an Eirenicon, when we treated you as foes." Like Archbishop Manning, Dr. Newman is reminded "of the sword wreathed in myrtle;" but Dr.
Quò tendis inertem, Rex periture, fugam? nescis, heu! perdite, nescis Quern fugias: hostes incurris dum fugis hostem; Incidis in Scyllam, cupiens vitare Charybdim. A line not less frequently quoted was suggested for enquiry in a note on The Rape of Lucrece: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris : But the author of this verse has not, I believe, been discovered.
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