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i used to know but can’t recall the exact translation i wanted.

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    Welcome to the site! Could you provide more context? Mortem interfeci looks like a good literal translation. But it seems you are looking for a specific passage with that meaning. Christian literature has developed the image motivated by Christ's resurrection, e.g. in the Easter Sequence: Mors et vita duello conflixere mirando/Dux vitae mortuus regnat vivus
    – Rafael
    Nov 23, 2021 at 12:12

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At least Luther wrote (WA 56,323,19-24):

Quia Mortem occidi est mortem non reverti [...]

Clumsy translation: "For Death to be killed is death to not return..."

We could modify that phrase so that "I killed Death" = Mortem occidi. Funnily enough the first person perfect looks identical to the passive infinitive.

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