E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Fight.
(See Hudibras, Pt. iii. c. 3.)
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“He that fights and runs away
May live to fight another day;
But he that is in battle slain
Can never rise to fight again.”
Sir John Mennes: Musarum Delictæ (1656.)
Demos’thens, being reproached for running away from Philip of Macedon, at Chærone’a, replied, “A man that runs away may fight again (A o ευ).” (See Aulus Gellius, xvii. 21.)
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