John Wilkes Booth is said to have uttered the words "sic semper tyrannis" immediately after he shot Abraham Lincoln. The meaning is "Thus always to tyrants". Tyrannis is the dative plural of tyrannus, -i (m).
Another famous phrase incorporating a dative plural is "Vae victis", which means "Woe to the vanquished".
vae interj. woe, alas
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