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That is the object of contention between lawyers, speculators, squatters, and the defenceless owners. "Vae victis!" The days of confiscation follow the conquest. Hydraulic mining, quartz processes, and corporate effort succeed the earlier mining attempts. Two different forces are now in full energy of action. Hills are swept bodily into the river-beds, in the search for the underlying gold.
As soon as a man's tendo Achillis gives way he finds himself trampled under foot by the young, the eager, the voracious. "Vae victis, vae debilibus!" yells the crowd, which in its turn is storming the goods of this world.
He condones all that ordinary judgments regard as the tyranny of conquest, and has for the conquered only a vae victis. In this spirit, he writes : M. Thierry celebrates with considerable pathos the fate of the Saxons; the fate of the Welsh, too, moves him; of the Celts generally, whom a fiercer race swept before them into the mountains, whither they were not worth following.
Here you can fall back on that naked and awful arbitration which is the only thing that balances the stars a still, continuous violence. Vae Victis! Down, down, down with the defeated! Victory is the only ultimate fact. Carthage was destroyed, the Red Indians are being exterminated: that is the single certainty.
Take no notice at all of her murmurs, of her cries, of her sufferings; nature has ordained her for your use, that she may bear everything children, griefs, blows and pains from man. Don't accuse yourself of harshness. In the codes of all the nations which are called civilized, man has written the laws which govern the destiny of women in these cruel terms: Vae victis! Woe to the conquered!
"Vae victis, eh, old chap?" said Sidney, as they sauntered off together to their respective courts. "By the way, who is that Stillwell chap?" he asked in a low voice of Captain Jack as they moved away from the others. "Of any particular importance?" "I think you've got him all right," replied Jack carelessly. The Englishman nodded. "He somehow gets my goat," said Jack.
It was in the first days of the Republic that an army of Gauls took possession of Rome, and the names of Manlius and Camillus are no better known in history than that of Brenn, called by Livy, Brennus. His celebrated answer, "Vae victis," will live as long as the world.
These men arrayed in gorgeous uniforms were not judges charged with the vindication of a cruel law, but still a law they were the instruments, commissioned by the conquerors, to strike the vanquished in the name of that savage code which may be summed up in two words: "vae victis." The president, the noble Duc de Sairmeuse, would not have consented to summon Martial on any consideration.
"We, too, know many oremus, parcenobis, and Agnus Dei Catolis, but now we shouldn't understand one another. Provide Tinong with an argument so that they won't hang him!" "You're done wrong, very wrong, cousin, in cultivating friendship with that young man," replied the Latinist. "The righteous suffer for the sinners. I was almost going to advise you to make your will. Vae illis!
'And behind it a house and garden, small but dainty? 'Yes, my lord. 'Then I trust your majesty will release me from suspicion of being of those to whom the prophet Isaias saith, "Vae qui conjungitis domum ad domum, et agrum agro copulatis usque ad terminum loci: numquid habitabitis vos soli in medio terrae?"
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