Brewer's: Vixere

“Vixere fortes ante Agamemnoua” (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.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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