1894 Brewer’s / V / Vixere
“Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona” (Horace). You are not the first great man that ever lived, though you boast so mightily. Our own age does not monopolise the right of merit.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.