Over the weekend the independent news website Origo ran an article headlined "Don't sign it, Janos!"

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His biggest mistake the fons et origo of all the others was to try to fight the war with too few troops.

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There is a plaque on a house in John Street, Oxford, where Mr Ware once lived, informing passing Romans that he was fons et origo Mensae.

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