“Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!”
Said of Publius Quinctilius Varus, who commanded the three legions lost at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 23. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
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Quintili Vare, legiones redde!
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