Comment by jjtheblunt

aposiopesis is followed presumably by some latin phrasing of prepare for war?

[edit, found the real version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_vis_pacem%2C_para_bellum ]

adapted from a statement found in Roman author Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus's tract De Re Militari (fourth or fifth century AD), in which the actual phrasing is Igitur qui desiderat pacem, præparet bellum ("Therefore let him who desires peace prepare for war").