"quot servi, tot hostes" meaning in Latin

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        "t": "Then, the saying which shows the same kind of high-handed behaviour is often repeated: There are as many enemies as there are slaves; we do not simply have those enemies, but we make them into enemies.",
        "title": "w:Epistulae morales ad Lucilium",
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          "english": "\"As many slaves, so many enemies,\" is in a proverb, of which Sinnius Capito reckons an error by humans has intervened irregularly through many tellings.",
          "ref": "1880, Sextus Pompeius Festus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Sexti Pompei Festi De verborum significatione quae supersunt cum Pauli Epitome, Leipzig, page 261/1",
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        "Every slave is an enemy (literally as many slaves, so many enemies)"
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