concept
Vae victis
vae victis
also: горе побежденным
Latin, "woe to the vanquished" -- traditionally the taunt of the Gaulish chieftain Brennus after sacking Rome (Livy 5.48); Chekhov's narrator applies it, bitterly, to the dying wolf.
Reading notes
- At the Wolf-Baiting §22 vae victis
Latin, "woe to the vanquished" -- traditionally the taunt of the Gaulish chieftain Brennus after sacking Rome (Livy 5.48); Chekhov's narrator glosses it in the text and turns it, bitterly, on the dying wolf.