Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1869
AUTHOR:
Saint Augustine (354430)
QUOTATION:
The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
ATTRIBUTION:
ST. AUGUSTINE, The City of God, book 3, chapter 19.The Works of Aurelius Augustine, ed. Marcus Dods, vol. 1, pp. 11920 (1871). De Civitate Dei was written 413426.