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And the third, speaking of the civil wars betwixt Caesar and Pompey, "Victrix causa diis placuit, set victa Catoni." And the fourth, upon the praises of Caesar: "Et cuncta terrarum subacta, Praeter atrocem animum Catonis." And the master of the choir, after having set forth all the great names of the greatest Romans, ends thus: "His dantem jura Catonem."
Colunt==in-colunt. Both often used intransitively, or rather with an ellipsis of the object,==dwell. Discreti ac diversi. Separate and scattered in different directions, i.e. without regular streets or highways. See Or. in loc. Ut fons placuit. On the permanence of names of places, see note H. 1, 53.
I might dedicate the book to the successful general who is now the President of the United States, with the hope that his integrity and justice will restore peace and happiness, so far as he can, to those unhappy States which have suffered so much from war and the unrelenting hostility of wicked men. But as the Roman poet says, "'Victrix causa deis placuit, sed victa Catoni;
Cato did not utter the phrase "Victrix causa diis placuit, sed victa Catoni," with more resolution than that with which I answered: "Never!" "Oho! you will never drink wine? We shall see how you keep your word in the course of time!" And that is why I kept my word. Till to-day I have never touched wine.
Reasoning from what has been to what will be is apt to be paralogistic at the best. Much influence must still be left to chance, much accounted for by what pagans called Fate, and we Providence. We can only say, Victrix causa diis placuit, and Cato must make the best of it.
I rather think I shall go for a fortnight to Bath. You have heard of Gen. Scott's death. George's motto for his achievement is sic Dice placuit; and for his sarcophagus Dice Manibus, &c. . . . The American Prohibitory Bill, to prevent trade and intercourse between the American Colonies and Great Britain and the West Indies.
What madness was this, my countrymen, what fierce orgy of slaughter... to give to hated nations the spectacle of Roman bloodshed? and: Bella geri placuit, nullos habitura triumphos. It was decided to wage wars that could win no triumphs. If they were taking up the cause of protecting liberty or defending the republic, they would be able to offer morally acceptable excuse for fighting.
"Victrix causa deis placuit, sed victa Catoni." We recognise here a noble but misguided spirit, fretting at the dispensations it cannot approve, because it cannot understand them. Bitterly disgusted at the failure of the Empire to fulfil all its promise, the writers of this period waste their strength in unavailing upbraidings of the gods.
When his plan has failed, as fail it in all probability will, he still, with that serene assurance which is the attribute of mediocrity, will insist that it ought to have succeeded. "Victrix causa Diis placuit, sed victa Catoni." Those who knew him in Brittany tell me that long before he became a personage, "le plan de Trochu" was a standing joke throughout that province.
Sic constituunt, sic condicunt: nox ducere diem videtur. Illud ex libertate vitium, quod non simul, nec ut jussi conveniunt, sed et alter et tertius dies cunctatione coeuntium absumitur. Ut turbae placuit, considunt armati. Silentium per sacerdotes, quibus tum et coercendi jus est, imperatur.
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