/ · 1894 Brewer’s · A · Aut Cæsar aut nullus [Latin, Either Cæsar or no one]
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everything or nothing; all or not at all. Cæsar used to say, “he would sooner be first in a village than second at Rome.” Milton makes Satan say,
“Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.”
Milton: Par. Lost. i. 263.
(See Six.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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