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Var, Var, give me back my legions!

Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian Augustus

Phraseologism: Var, Var, give me back my legions!

Meaning: Regret for the big loss.

Origin: The Roman historian Suetonius (c. 70-160 AD) in his work "Biography of the Twelve Caesars" ("August", 23) tells that the emperor Augustus, having received news of the defeat of his commander Varus in the Teutoburg Forest, when the elite Roman legions were completely exterminated by the Germans (9 AD), exclaimed in despair: "Quintilius Varus, return the legions!" This exclamation of despair became winged in the form of "Var, Var, return (give) me my legions!"

Random phraseology:

And everything that he saw before him, he despised or hated.

Meaning:

About an embittered, unsociable person, about a misanthrope (ironic).

Origin:

From the poem "The Demon" (1839) by M. Yu. Lermontov (1814-1841) (part 1, stanza 4): "... But, except for cold envy, // Nature did not excite the brilliance // In the barren exile's chest / / No new feelings, no new strength, / And everything that he saw before him, / He despised or hated.

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