Phr. veni vidi vici[Lat], the day being one’s own, one’s star in the
ascendant; omne tulit punctum[Lat].
     bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria[obs3][Lat]; cede repugnanti
cedendo victor abibis [Lat][Ovid]; chacun est l’artisan de sa fortune[Fr]; dies faustus[Lat]; l’art de vaincre est celui de mepriser la mort[Fr]; omnia vincit amor [Lat:  love conquers all]; “peace hath her victories no less renowned than war” [Milton]; “the race by vigor not by vaunts is won” [Pope]; vincit qui patitur[Lat]; vincit qui se vincit[Lat]; “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet” [Mark Twain].

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     #732.  Failure. —­ N. failure; nonsuccess[obs3], nonfulfillment; dead
failure, successlessness[obs3]; abortion, miscarriage; brutum fulmen &c. 158[Lat]; labor in vain &c. (inutility) 645; no go; inefficacy[obs3]; inefficaciousness &c. adj.; vain attempt, ineffectual attempt, abortive attempt, abortive efforts; flash in the pan, “lame and impotent conclusion” [Othello]; frustration; slip ’twixt cup and lip &c. (disappointment) 509.
     blunder &c. (mistake) 495; fault, omission, miss, oversight, slip,
trip, stumble, claudication|, footfall; false step, wrong step; faux pas[Fr], titubation[obs3], bvue[Fr], faute[Fr], lurch; botchery &c. (want of skill) 699[obs3]; scrape, mess, fiasco, breakdown; flunk [U.S.].
     mishap &c. (misfortune) 735; split, collapse, smash, blow, explosion.
     repulse, rebuff, defeat, rout, overthrow, discomfiture; beating,
drubbing; quietus, nonsuit[obs3], subjugation; checkmate, stalemate, fool’s mate.
     fall, downfall, ruin, perdition; wreck &c. (destruction) 162;
deathblow; bankruptcy &c. (nonpayment) 808.
     losing game, affaire flambe.
     victim; bankrupt; flunker[obs3], flunky [U.S.]. 
     V. fail; be unsuccessful &c. adj.; not succeed &c. 731; make vain
efforts &c.n.; do in vain, labor in vain, toil in vain; flunk [U.S.]; lose one’s labor, take nothing by one’s motion; bring to naught, make nothing of; wash a blackamoor white &c. (impossible) 471; roll the stones of Sisyphus &c. (useless) 645; do by halves &c. (not complete) 730; lose ground &c. (recede) 282; fall short of &c. 304.
     miss, miss one’s aim, miss the mark, miss one’s footing, miss stays;
slip, trip, stumble; make a slip &c., n. blunder &c. 495, make a mess of, make a botch of; bitch it|, miscarry, abort, go up like a rocket and come down like the stick, come down in flames, get shot down, reckon without one’s host; get the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong sow by the ear &c. (blunder, mismanage) 699.
     limp, halt, hobble, titubate[obs3]; fall, tumble; lose one’s balance;
fall to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud, run aground, split upon a rock; beat one’s head against a stone wall, run one’s head against a stone wall, knock one’s head against a stone wall, dash one’s head against