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  • Principe nempe Persarum gessit; ratione quorum bellorum in partes alias bellum mouere noluit, ob eamque causam in partibus Poloni� latrones quidam Cosaci nuncupati, et alij facinorosi in partibus illis existentes, subditos C鎠aris potentissimi turbare et infestare non desierunt.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • I believe that war is in Latin called bellum, not by antiphrasis, as some patchers of old rusty Latin would have us to think, because in war there is little beauty to be seen, but absolutely and simply; for that in war appeareth all that is good and graceful, and that by the wars is purged out all manner of wickedness and deformity.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • I believe that war is in Latin called bellum, not by antiphrasis, as some patchers of old rusty Latin would have us to think, because in war there is little beauty to be seen, but absolutely and simply; for that in war appeareth all that is good and graceful, and that by the wars is purged out all manner of wickedness and deformity.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Angliæ; ad quam omnes supplices confugiunt, incrementum omnium rerum et actionum Serenitatis vestræ beatissimum, exitusque foelicissimos à Creatore omnipotente optantes, mutuáque et perpetua familiaritate nostra digna vota et laudes sempiternas offerentes: Significamus Ser. vestræ amicissimè; Quia sunt anni aliquot, à quibus annis potentissima Cæsarea celsitudo bella ineffabilia cum Casul-bas, Principe nempe Persarum gessit; ratione quorum bellorum in partes alias bellum mouere noluit, ob eamque causam in partibus

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • Latin called bellum, not by antiphrasis, as some patchers of old rusty

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • Rather than compromise or bargain for a return to the status quo ante bellum, leaders doubled down and raised the stakes for victory.

    War and Its Discontents William Anthony Hay 2011

  • In a rapidly approaching era of strategic scarcity, the likes of which we haven't seen since the ante bellum period, our military could well return to a role much closer to its truly traditional character, not just because the larger world is forcing us to, but because we can no longer afford to do it any other way.

    Christopher Holshek: End of the Military-Industrial Complex? Christopher Holshek 2011

  • In a rapidly approaching era of strategic scarcity, the likes of which we haven't seen since the ante bellum period, our military could well return to a role much closer to its truly traditional character, not just because the larger world is forcing us to, but because we can no longer afford to do it any other way.

    Christopher Holshek: End of the Military-Industrial Complex? Christopher Holshek 2011

  • So how did that work for the blacks in the ante-bellum South?

    Matthew Yglesias » Conservative Magazines Not For Liberty 2009

  • The Dutch expected to get back their most valuable colonial possession “status quo ante bellum.”

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

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