"Et primo ferri motu prosternite mundum; sitque palam, quas tot duxit Pompeius in urbem curribus, unius gentes non esse triumphi."
— Victory

January 1, 1970

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One stroke of sword and all the world is yours. Make plain to all men that the crowds who decked Pompeius' hundred pageants scarce were fit For one poor triumph — — Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia, Book VII, line 278, as translated by Sir Edward Ridley