[Ads-l] Letter to the editor of the NYT Online:

[W Brewer]

I see references to J.C.'s <divide et vinces>: an imperative + future:
"Divide! and you will conquer." More like a suggestion than an upper-case
command. Managed to subdue them Gauls, but jest could't drain that swamp
back in Latium.

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