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- noun (Zoöl.) Food; diet.
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Examples
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No guarantees as to correctness, but the translator spits out: optimus victus
Translate your personal motto into Latin Jonathan Aquino 2007
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Tam honorifico civium testimonio victus Catulus e contione discessit.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Now that’s how you deal with pirates. 2009
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My personal favorite is vae victus which if I could work my will, would be hung over the cell of every Islamofacist we captured.
Who will determine whether John McCain is a "natural-born citizen," qualified for the presidency? Ann Althouse 2008
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Stuart described the whirlwind courtship and engagement in Latin to a friend, “Veni, vidi victus sum,” or “I came, I saw, I was conquered.”
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008
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Stuart described the whirlwind courtship and engagement in Latin to a friend, “Veni, vidi victus sum,” or “I came, I saw, I was conquered.”
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008
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Melancholiam, quae fit a redundantia humoris in toto corpore, victus imprimis generat qui eum humorem parit.
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Millies potius moriturum (si quis sibi mente constaret) quam tam vilis et aerumnosi victus communionem habere.
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Diet, Διαιτητικὴ, victus, or living, according to [2885] Fuchsius and others, comprehends those six non-natural things, which I have before specified, are especial causes, and being rectified, a sole or chief part of the cure.
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Maxima pars victus in carne consistit, we feed on flesh most part, saith [1444] Polydore Virgil, as all northern countries do; and it would be very offensive to us to live after their diet, or they to live after ours.
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Frustra fatigant remediis aegros, qui victus ratione curari possunt, Heurnius.
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