Plato quote "Only the dead have seen the end of war" in lati

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Is Plato quote “Only the dead have seen the end of war” in latin “Mortui solum finem belli viderunt”?

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Someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but it looks fine.

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I know I’m spoiling it for you, but Plato never wrote that.

Did Plato write “Only the dead have seen the end of war” ?

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Regardless who wrote it, your line seems to say: “the dead have only seen the end of war”, which is not quite the same. I think it should be: “Soli mortui finem belli [forsitan bellorum?] viderunt.”