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To: D. Long who wrote (219064)	9/8/2007 12:00:30 PM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 793838

The term actually means "Divide and rule" and has gotten mistranslated a bit through the ages. But it does refer to the old Roman maxim that wars are easier to win if you can fight half an army at one time or place, and the other half elsewhere, rather than as a whole. The English used the term in the late 16 and early 17c. This quotation is from 1608: "For a Prince, that he may have good successe against either rebels or forraine enemies, it is a sure axiome, Divide and rule." Various other quotations claim the phrase to have been a maxim of Machiavelli and a motto of Phillip of Macedonia (father of Alexander the Great). (From Take Our Word for It)