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"I pause for a reply" [Julius Caesar].

the race is run; actum est; finis coronat opus; consummatum est; c'en est fait; it is all over; the game is played out, the bubble has burst; aussilot dit aussilot fait; aut non tentaris

life ebbs, life fails, life hangs by a thread; one's days are numbered, one's hour is come, one's race is run, one's doom is sealed; Death knocks at the door, Death stares one in the face; the breath is out of the body; the grave closes over one; sic itur ad astra [Vergil]; de mortuis nil nisi bonum; dulce et decorum est pro patria mori [Horace]; honesta mors turpi vita potior [Tacitus]; "in adamantine chains shall death be bound" [Pope]; mors ultima linea rerum est [Girace]; ominia mors aequat [Claudianus]; "Spake the grisly Terror" [Paradise Lost];

delenda est Carthago [Cato. "Carthage must be destroyed" (Latin)]; dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit ["While Rome deliberates Saguntum perishes" (Latin)]; ecrasez

cela va sans dire ["That goes without saying" (French)], "thereby hangs a tale" [Taming of the Shrew].

e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto ["It is better to fall from the window than from the roof" (Italian)].

fax mentis incendium gloriae; "temptation hath a music for all ears" [Willis]; "to beguile many and be beguiled by one" [Othello].

ogni medaglia ha il suo rovescio.