Use in literature
The phrase was borrowed as early as 56 BC, by Cicero in his speech Pro Caelio ("In Defense of Caelius", 1:61), [4] and was used again in 20 BC by Horace, in the first book of his Epistulae ("Letters", 1.19:41). [5] [6] This relatively early appropriation by eminent Roman authors, along with the initial and enduring popularity of the play itself, has led to the phrase becoming a familiar quotation in the Western cultural sphere. [7]
Notable uses of or allusions to the phrase also occur, more recently, in the letters of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, [8] and—in a play on the original (Hinc illae irae: "hence those rages"; also used in a letter of Marx's [9] )—in Trollope's 1882 novel Phineas Redux. [10]
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- ↑ "Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary". Merriam-Webster.com. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
- ↑ "Andria, Act 1 scene 1". Perseus Digital Library. Tufts University. Archived from the original on 7 July 2024. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
Hence those tears, hence that sympathy.
- ↑ "Cicero, Pro Caelio 61". Perseus Digital Library. Tufts University. Archived from the original on 13 May 2024. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
Hence arose those tears.
- ↑ "The First Book of the Epistles of Horace". Project Gutenberg. Archived from the original on 2024-06-25. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
Hence are these tears.
- ↑ "Horace, Epistles 1.1:19". Perseus Digital Library. Tufts University. Archived from the original on 2023-03-27. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
hinc illae lacrimae.
- ↑ Knowles, Elizabeth M., ed. (1999). The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (5th ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 768. ISBN 9780198601739.
- ↑ Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich (1889). "177. Engels to Paul Lafargue, 10 April 1889". Marx & Engels: Collected Works. Vol. 48, Letters 1887-90. Lawrence & Wishart (published 2010). p. 296. ISBN 9781843279921.
According to Hyndman, the Possibilists were afraid of being chucked out of their own congress, hinc illae lacrimae!
- ↑ Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich (1868). "122. Marx to Ludwig Kugelmann, 5 December 1868". Marx & Engels: Collected Works. Vol. 43, Letters 1868-70. Lawrence & Wishart (published 2010). p. 173. ISBN 9781843279877.
Thereupon we—i.e. THE GENERAL COUNCIL—officially announced, in 6 lines in the Cigale, that F. Pyat had absolutely no connection with the 'International', of which he was not even a member. Hinc illae irae.
- ↑ Trollope, Anthony (1882). "LXXV. THE TRUMPETON FEUD IS SETTLED.". Phineas Redux. Oxford University Press (published 2011). p. 531. ISBN 9780191620454. Archived from the original on 2024-05-02. Retrieved 2024-08-31.