Patris sequendo Filium, victis triumphas hostibus, victor victrix fruens cælestibus. From Wordnik.com. [October 23: St. James of Jerusalem, Brother of our Lord Jesus Christ, and Martyr] Reference
In his victrix he required all that was here visible — the imprint of high cultivation, the consecration of. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
For an acutely observed portrayal of a mind in turmoil Anna Kavan must take the victrix ludorum (I've tweaked the Victor bit because I know my Latin teacher of forty years ago is out there with her red pen). From Wordnik.com. [42 entries from November 2007] Reference
And Mrs. Hopkinson was victrix by her very audacity. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Mine] Reference
Blame the victrix if you think he should have been livelier. From Wordnik.com. [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference
But Alice had fled, leaving Patricia the victrix of her bloodless battle-field. From Wordnik.com. [The Lever A Novel] Reference
It seemed a duel between herself and Mr. Tonans, and she sure of her triumph -- Diana victrix!. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
For the present I will try to inspire myself a little with the victrix, and to imagine that I could do the same thing. From Wordnik.com. [Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt]
Sufficient grace, as a weak delight, imparts merely the ability (posse), or such a feeble will that only the advent of the victorious delight of grace (delectatio coelestis victrix, caritas) can guarantee the will and the actual deed. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
They either were, or at least would be thought to be, a legion, formidable as an army with banners; and now, at least, to be, what the twentieth legion of the Roman army, which was long quartered at Chester, was styled, legio victrix -- a victorious legion. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
Of that fatal and fateful dilemma when a wife or a husband falls victim to the wiles of another, there are, for the delinquent, two and only two horns (and it is a moot question upon which it is preferable to be impaled): Flight -- either from the victor or the victrix. From Wordnik.com. [Hints for Lovers] Reference
The famous lines, quis iustius induit arma scire nefas: magno se iudice quisque tuetur, victrix causa deis placuit, sed victa Catoni (i. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference
The answer can be found at greater length here, but I have an excerpt (quoted from the linked source): " Lucan wrote, in his Civil War epic, The Pharsalia, "victrix causa diis placuit, sed victa Catoni" ('The victorious cause pleased the gods but the defeated cause pleased Cato'). From Wordnik.com. [Sed Victa Catoni] Reference
Atque eadem victrix, victaque Roma fuit. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: THE RUINS OF ROME.] Reference
As victrix when abhorred. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
In the van was Sissy victrix. From Wordnik.com. [The Madigans] Reference
Tu meliora paras victrix Medicina; tuusque. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson]
"Causa victrix placuit deis, sed victa Catoni.". From Wordnik.com. [Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,] Reference
Ni victrix tua Marte manus prius inclyta, nostris. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference
A philosopher: magna quidem, sacris quae dat praecepta libellis, victrix fortunae sapientia, ducimus autem hos quoque felices, qui ferre incommoda vitae nec iactare iugum vita didicere magistra (xiii. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference
Quæ stabat ubique victrix. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
Hostium victrix, properante cursu. From Wordnik.com. [May 30 -- St Joan of Arc] Reference
Harmony, victrix, throned in state sublime. From Wordnik.com. [Deep-sea Soundings] Reference
Aurora, umbrarum victrix, neo victa recedas. ". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 54, November 9, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
Moreover, female-specified terms have basically vanished: aviatrix and aviatress, conciliatrix and conciliatress, dictatrix and dictatress, prosecutrix, testatrix, tutrix, relatrix, heritrix or heritress, inheritrix and inheritress, victrix and victress. From Wordnik.com. [The Stupidest Arguments Against Marriage Equality] Reference
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