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Woe to the vanquished!

Titus Livy

Phraseologism: Woe to the vanquished!

Meaning: Whoever is defeated loses everything, all rights, and does not have the right to demand something, dispute, etc. - this must be done before defeat, in the struggle.

Origin: From Latin: Vae victis! According to the Roman historian Titus Livy (59 BC-17 AD), the Gallic leader Brennus in 390 BC. e. (according to other sources, in 372 BC) defeated the Roman troops and laid siege to Rome. The townspeople had no choice but to start negotiations. Livy's Titus writes: "The matter was completed at the negotiations between the tribune Quintus Sultius and the king of the Gauls Brennus, and the people who were soon to become the ruler of the world were valued at a thousand pounds of gold. Another humiliation was added to the most shameful deal in itself. The Gauls brought infidels weights, and when the tribune began to object, the impudent Gaul added his sword to the weights, and the Romans heard unbearable words for them: "Woe to the vanquished!"

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Apocalypse.

Meaning:

About a terrible, global cataclysm, equal in its consequences to the biblical end of the world.

Origin:

From the Bible. The original ancient Greek version of the title of the last part of the New Testament, which in the canonical text of the Bible is called "The Revelation of the Apostle John the Theologian". The author sets forth here in the form of vivid prophetic visions the revelation that was given to John the Theologian from above when he was on the island of Patmos. He describes, in particular, the events that will precede the end of the world - the second coming of Christ, the appearance of the Antichrist, the struggle between them, as well as the end of the world itself and the Last Judgment, which should follow it. It also speaks of the eternal reign of Christ and the righteous, which will be established on the "new" (renewed) earth after the end of the world. Allegorically: about a terrible, global cataclysm, equal in its consequences to the biblical end of the world (see also Armageddon).

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