Modern Use
"Vae victis" is the motto of the 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment (United States Army), B company, and was on a patch worn during deployment in Iraq '07-'08.
In popular culture, it is the battle cry of Kain, the anti-hero of the Legacy of Kain videogame series. The expression featured prominently in the 2009 movie Open Graves as a synonym for "game over" in a deadly board game, where a character quips that it is Latin for "losers weepers".
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