Rome as Rome's only monument is seen,
And Rome by Rome alone has conquered been.

Rome de Rome est le seul monument
Et Rome Rome a vaincu seulement.

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Les Antiquités de Rome (1558), st. III. Tr. T. B. Harbottle; P. H. Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 203. Cp. Jean Racine, Mithridate (1673), III, 1: Jamais on ne vaincra les Romains que dans Rome.—"Never will the Romans be conquered but in Rome."

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