inimicorum

Updated: March 22, 2026

Upon the table was a hurried farewell of that General to the scenes of his, discomfiture, written in a Latin worthy of Juan Vargas: "Vale civitas, valete castelli parvi, qui relicti estis propter aquam et non per vim inimicorum!"

John Lothrop Motley - The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)