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...epitaph for the (estimated) 20.-ooo dead of Budapest, a Hungarian in Vienna quoted a phrase from Virgil: Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor, which translates: "Some avenger will some time arise from our bones." The question was, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Death in Budapest | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

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