The gods were pleased to choose the conquering side
- DMI number:
- 2265
- First Line:
- The gods were pleased to choose the conquering side
- Last Line:
- But Cato thought he conquered when he died
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Fate / fortune / providence
- Translated from:
- Lucan
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Chalmers (1810) VIII: 271.
- First Line:
- The gods were pleased to cease the conquering side
- Last Line:
- But Cato thought he conquered when he died
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- A supplement to the works of the most celebrated minor poets [T79269] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.5
- Poem Title:
- Translation of the following Verse from Lucan. Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.
- Attribution:
- The Earl of Roscommon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- A Supplement To The Works Of The Most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 3] [2nd ed] [T185023] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.5
- Poem Title:
- Translation of the following Verse from Lucan. Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The minor poets or the works of the most celebrated authors [vol 1] [N6033]
- Page No(s):
- p.44
- Poem Title:
- Translation of the following Verse from Lucan. Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.
- Attribution:
- By the Earl of Roscommon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset, also those of the Dukes of Devonshire and Buckinghamshire [T95243]
- Page No(s):
- p.179
- Poem Title:
- Translations of the following verses from Lucan, Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.
- Attribution:
- Roscomon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset, the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire [Vol II] [T94653]
- Page No(s):
- p.171
- Poem Title:
- Translations of the following Verse from Lucan. Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.
- Attribution:
- Roscomon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset: The Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &c [Vol II] [T95240]
- Page No(s):
- p.166
- Poem Title:
- Translations of the following Verse from Lucan. Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.
- Attribution:
- Roscomon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset: The Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &c. [Vol II] [T146730]
- Page No(s):
- p.134
- Poem Title:
- Translations of the following Verses from Lucan. Victrix Causa Diis sed Victa Catoni.
- Attribution:
- Roscomon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c [Vol II] [T95242]
- Page No(s):
- p.129
- Poem Title:
- Translations of the following Verses from Lucan. Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.
- Attribution:
- Roscomon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscomon, and Dorset, the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c. [Vol II] [N35509]
- Page No(s):
- p.131
- Poem Title:
- Translations of the following Verses from Lucan, Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.
- Attribution:
- Roscomon.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscomon, and Dorset: the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c. [Vol II] [T119718]
- Page No(s):
- p.134
- Poem Title:
- Translations of the following verses from Lucan, Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.
- Attribution:
- Roscomon
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
- Title:
- The Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets [vol. 3] [N25943] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.5
- Poem Title:
- Translation of the following Verse from Lucan. Victrix Causa Diis placuit, sed Victa Catoni.
- Attribution:
- Collected under Roscommon's name.
- Attributed To:
- Wentworth Dillon
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