Hello,

Looking for translation of the phrase "he conquers, who conquers himself".
I know the original saying comes from Latin "Vincit qui se vincit" but I'd like to have an Irish translation of this.

Any help is really appreciated!

Go raibh maith agat.

Check out this previous discussion and translation on the forum from 2016:

viewtopic.php?f=28&t=4472&hilit=he+conquers%2C+who+conquers+himself

The following would be a fairly literal translation: Cloíonn an duine a chloíonn é féin.

I'm not sure how well that sounds in practice.

The thread that Tiomluasocein links to does point out that 'cloígh' is a transitive verb and so might be expected to have a direct object, whereas my translation above doesn't have a direct object for the first instance of 'cloígh'. But I wonder if a transitive verb always requires an explicit direct object.

There is also the verb 'sáraigh' ('overcome'), which would give 'Sáraíonn an duine a sháraíonn é féin'.