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Nothing is wiser than the maxim, 'cedant arma togae', for the maintenance of republics.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

Well, in view of the fact that there is a slave part in it, I shall do just as I said and make it tragi-comedy. nunc hoc me orare a vobis iussit Iuppiter, ut conquaestores singula in subsellia eant per totam caveam spectatoribus, si cui favitores delegates viderint, ut is in cavea pignus capiantur togae;

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

His “cedant arma togae” was a scream, an impotent scream, against all that Sulla had done or Caesar was about to do.

The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881

It was in them that the much-abused lines _O fortunam natam me Consule Romam_, and _Cedant arma togae, concedat laurea laudi_, occurred.

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

The truth is that in this age _cedant arma togae: _ it is the civilian who rules on the throne or behind it, and who makes the fighting-men his mere agents.

Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867

His "cedant arma togae" was a scream, an impotent scream, against all that Sulla had done or Caesar was about to do.

Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848

When the Romans said "cedant arma togae," they did not refer to civil officials and soldiers; the civil officials were then soldiers in their turn; professional soldiers did not exist.

Battle Studies Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq 1845

Nothing is wiser than the maxim, 'cedant arma togae', for the maintenance of republics.

The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836

Nothing is wiser than the maxim, 'cedant arma togae', for the maintenance of republics.

Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801

Reference to Cicero's cedant arma togae, a relic of an attempt at verse. line 414.

Marmion Walter Scott 1801