Amat Victoria Curam – Victory Loves Preparation
Catullus, Poem 62.16, around 55 BC
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“Victory loves preparation” – word for word, “victory loves care”. The line comes from a wedding song by the poet Catullus (c. 84–54 BC), in which a choir of young men and a choir of girls compete in song as the evening star rises. The young men see that the girls have rehearsed with their whole mind while their own thoughts were elsewhere, and admit: “So we will deserve to lose – victory loves care.” The motto of every hard worker was first spoken by the side that had not practised. Here Victoria, the winged goddess of victory, comes down with the laurel wreath and the palm branch for the winner.
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“Amat victoria curam” – Victory loves preparation; word for word: victory loves care. Catullus, Poems 62.16.
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