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| “When you realize the power of Athens, consider it was won by valiant men who knew their duty, had a sense of dishonor in fight and, if their enterprises failed, would rather give their lives than lack in civic virtue.” \n— Pericles in his Funeral Oration for Athenians that died in the first year of the war (Thucydides, “History of the Peloponnesian War”, II. 43.2) | “When you realize the power of Athens, consider it was won by valiant men who knew their duty, had a sense of dishonor in fight and, if their enterprises failed, would rather give their lives than lack in civic virtue.” \n— Pericles in his Funeral Oration for Athenians that died in the first year of the war (Thucydides, “History of the Peloponnesian War”, II. 43.2) | ||||
| “To heroes all earth is their tomb, and their virtues are remembered far from home where an epitaph declares them, in an unwritten record of the mind that will outlast any monument.” \n— Pericles in his Funeral Oration for Athenians that died in the first year of the war (Thucydides, “History of the Peloponnesian War”, II. 43.3) | “To heroes all earth is their tomb, and their virtues are remembered far from home where an epitaph declares them, in an unwritten record of the mind that will outlast any monument.” \n— Pericles in his Funeral Oration for Athenians that died in the first year of the war (Thucydides, “History of the Peloponnesian War”, II. 43.3) | ||||
| “Understand that happiness depends on freedom, and freedom depends on courage.” \n— Pericles in his Funeral Oration for Athenians that died in the first year of the war (Thucydides, “History of the Peloponnesian War”, II. 43.4) | “Understand that happiness depends on freedom, and freedom depends on courage.” \n— Pericles in his Funeral Oration for Athenians that died in the first year of the war (Thucydides, “History of the Peloponnesian War”, II. 43.4) | ||||
| “Wait for the wisest of all counsellors, time.” \n— Pericles, a cautious politician who avoided war (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Pericles”, sec. 18) | “Wait for the wisest of all counsellors, time.” \n— Pericles, a cautious politician who avoided war (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Pericles”, sec. 18) | ||||
| “Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.” \n— Pericles, addressing the Athenian assembly after a plague had weakened the city (Thucydides, “History of the Peloponnesian War”, II. 63.3) | “Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.” \n— Pericles, addressing the Athenian assembly after a plague had weakened the city (Thucydides, “History of the Peloponnesian War”, II. 63.3) | ||||
| “War is sweet to those who have no experience of it, but the experienced man fears its approach in his heart.” \n— Pindar (fragment 110) | “War is sweet to those who have no experience of it, but the experienced man fears its approach in his heart.” \n— Pindar (fragment 110) | ||||
| “Themistocles robbed his fellow citizens of spear and shield, and degraded the people of Athens to the rowing-pad and the oar.” \n— Plato, no friend of the Athenian navy (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Themistocles”, sec. 3) | “Themistocles robbed his fellow citizens of spear and shield, and degraded the people of Athens to the rowing-pad and the oar.” \n— Plato, no friend of the Athenian navy (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Themistocles”, sec. 3) | ||||
| “No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.” \n— Plautus (“The Swaggering Soldier”, Act III, scene 1, 146) | “No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.” \n— Plautus (“The Swaggering Soldier”, Act III, scene 1, 146) | ||||
| “You cannot eat your cake and have it too, unless you think your money is immortal.” \n— Plautus (“Trinummus”, Act II, scene 4, 12) | “You cannot eat your cake and have it too, unless you think your money is immortal.”\n— Plautus (“Trinummus”, Act II, scene 4, 13–14) | ||||
| “He \[Alexander] thought nothing invincible for the courageous, and nothing secure for the cowardly.” \n— Plutarch (“Parallel Lives”, “Alexander”, sec. 58) | “He \[Alexander] thought nothing invincible for the courageous, and nothing secure for the cowardly.” \n— Plutarch (“Parallel Lives”, “Alexander”, sec. 58) | ||||
| “One \[…] shot an arrow at him with such accuracy and force that it pierced his breastplate and got stuck in his ribs. \[…] Alexander recoiled and sank to his knees. \[…] At last Alexander killed the barbarian. But he received many wounds, at last was struck on the neck with a mace, and leaned against the city wall, his eyes still fixed upon his foes.” \n— Plutarch about the Mallian Campaign (“Parallel Lives”, “Alexander”, sec. 63) | “One \[…] shot an arrow at him with such accuracy and force that it pierced his breastplate and got stuck in his ribs. \[…] Alexander recoiled and sank to his knees. \[…] At last Alexander killed the barbarian. But he received many wounds, at last was struck on the neck with a mace, and leaned against the city wall, his eyes still fixed upon his foes.” \n— Plutarch about the Mallian Campaign (“Parallel Lives”, “Alexander”, sec. 63) | ||||
| “When the pirates demanded a ransom of twenty talents for him, Caesar burst out laughing. They did not know, he said, who it was that they had captured, and he volunteered to pay fifty.” \n— Plutarch, who mentions later that Caesar got his money back and had his captors crucified (“Parallel Lives”, “Caesar”, sec. 2) | “When the pirates demanded a ransom of twenty talents for him, Caesar burst out laughing. They did not know, he said, who it was that they had captured, and he volunteered to pay fifty.” \n— Plutarch, who mentions later that Caesar got his money back and had his captors crucified (“Parallel Lives”, “Caesar”, sec. 2) | ||||
| “They \[the Romans] want the centurions not so much to be adventurous and daredevils, as to be natural leaders, of a steady and reliable spirit. They do not so much want men who will initiate attacks and open the battle, but men who will hold their ground when beaten and hard-pressed, and will be ready to die at their posts.” \n— Polybius (“Histories”, VI. 24) | “They \[the Romans] want the centurions not so much to be adventurous and daredevils, as to be natural leaders, of a steady and reliable spirit. They do not so much want men who will initiate attacks and open the battle, but men who will hold their ground when beaten and hard-pressed, and will be ready to die at their posts.” \n— Polybius (“Histories”, VI. 24) | ||||
| “The Roman battle line is hard to break, since it allows every man to fight both individually and collectively; so that a formation can fight in any direction, with the maniples nearest to the point of danger wheeling around to face it.” \n— Polybius (“Histories”, XV. 15) | “The Roman battle line is hard to break, since it allows every man to fight both individually and collectively; so that a formation can fight in any direction, with the maniples nearest to the point of danger wheeling around to face it.” \n— Polybius (“Histories”, XV. 15) | ||||
| “The Athenian people are always in the position of a ship without a commander. Fear of the enemy or a storm make the crew be of one mind and obey the helmsman, everything goes well; but if they recover \[…] they quarrel with each other \[…], and the result has often been that, after escaping the dangers of the widest seas and the most violent storms, they wreck their ship in harbor and close to shore.” \n— Polybius on the Athenian constitution (“Histories”, VI. 44) | “The Athenian people are always in the position of a ship without a commander. Fear of the enemy or a storm make the crew be of one mind and obey the helmsman, everything goes well; but if they recover \[…] they quarrel with each other \[…], and the result has often been that, after escaping the dangers of the widest seas and the most violent storms, they wreck their ship in harbor and close to shore.” \n— Polybius on the Athenian constitution (“Histories”, VI. 44) | ||||
| “Most of the Romans were trampled to death by the enormous weight of the elephants; the rest were shot down in their ranks by the numerous cavalry: and there were only a very few who attempted to save themselves by flight.” \n— Polybius on the Battle of Bagradas where a Roman army was annihilated during the First Punic War (“Histories”, I. 34) | “Most of the Romans were trampled to death by the enormous weight of the elephants; the rest were shot down in their ranks by the numerous cavalry: and there were only a very few who attempted to save themselves by flight.” \n— Polybius on the Battle of Bagradas where a Roman army was annihilated during the First Punic War (“Histories”, I. 34) | ||||
| “Hannibal gave the signal for attack; and at the same time sent orders to the troops lying in ambush on the hills to do the same, and thus delivered an assault upon the enemy at every point at once.” \n— Polybius on the beginning of a Roman disaster at the Trasymene Lake (“Histories”, III. 84) | “Hannibal gave the signal for attack; and at the same time sent orders to the troops lying in ambush on the hills to do the same, and thus delivered an assault upon the enemy at every point at once.” \n— Polybius on the beginning of a Roman disaster at the Trasymene Lake (“Histories”, III. 84) | ||||
| “In the phalanx, the men cannot turn around singly and defend themselves: this tribune, therefore, charged them \[from behind] and killed all he could get at; until, unable to resist, they were forced to throw away their shields and flee.” \n— Polybius, describing the defeat of Philip V. of Macedon by Flaminius in the Battle of Cynoscephalae (“Histories”, XVIII. 26) | “In the phalanx, the men cannot turn around singly and defend themselves: this tribune, therefore, charged them \[from behind] and killed all he could get at; until, unable to resist, they were forced to throw away their shields and flee.” \n— Polybius, describing the defeat of Philip V. of Macedon by Flaminius in the Battle of Cynoscephalae (“Histories”, XVIII. 26) | ||||
| “The Roman order on the other hand is flexible: for every Roman, once armed and on the field, is equally well equipped for every place, time, or appearance of the enemy. He is, moreover, quite ready and needs to make no change, whether he is required to fight in the main body, or in a detachment, or in a single maniple, or even by himself.” \n— Polybius, explaining how the Romans can defeat the Macedonian phalanx (“Histories”, XVIII. 32) | “The Roman order on the other hand is flexible: for every Roman, once armed and on the field, is equally well equipped for every place, time, or appearance of the enemy. He is, moreover, quite ready and needs to make no change, whether he is required to fight in the main body, or in a detachment, or in a single maniple, or even by himself.” \n— Polybius, explaining how the Romans can defeat the Macedonian phalanx (“Histories”, XVIII. 32) | ||||
| “Scipio \[Aemilianus], when he looked upon the city \[Carthage] as it was utterly perishing and in the last throes of its complete destruction, is said to have shed tears and wept openly for his enemies. And realized that all cities, nations, and authorities must, like men, meet their doom.” \n— Polybius, eyewitness to the destruction of Carthage (“Histories”, XXXVIII. 22) | “Scipio \[Aemilianus], when he looked upon the city \[Carthage] as it was utterly perishing and in the last throes of its complete destruction, is said to have shed tears and wept openly for his enemies. And realized that all cities, nations, and authorities must, like men, meet their doom.” \n— Polybius, eyewitness to the destruction of Carthage (“Histories”, XXXVIII. 22) | ||||
| “One more such victory and the cause is lost!” \n— Pyrrhus of Epirus after the Battle of Asculum, in which the Romans lost twice as many men but he lost a greater share of his armed forces (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Pyrrhus”, sec. 21) | “One more such victory and the cause is lost!” \n— Pyrrhus of Epirus after the Battle of Asculum, in which the Romans lost twice as many men but he lost a greater share of his armed forces (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Pyrrhus”, sec. 21) | ||||
| “None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.” \n— Pythagoras (Stobaeus, “Florilegium”, 18) | “None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.” \n— Pythagoras (Stobaeus, “Florilegium”, 18) | ||||
| “Do not say few things in many words, but many things in few words.” \n— Pythagoras (Stobaeus, “Florilegium”, 24) | “Do not say few things in many words, but many things in few words.” \n— Pythagoras (Stobaeus, “Florilegium”, 24) | ||||
| “Let your speech be better than silence, or be silent.” \n— Pythagoras (Stobaeus, “Florilegium”, 24) | “Let your speech be better than silence, or be silent.” \n— Pythagoras (Stobaeus, “Florilegium”, 24) | ||||
| “Unity strengthens even small states, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.” \n— Sallust (“The Jugurthine War”, 10.6) | “Unity strengthens even small states, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.” \n— Sallust (“The Jugurthine War”, 10.6) | ||||
| “Ungrateful fatherland, you will not even have my bones!” \n— Scipio Africanus in his epitaph, after he who defeated Hannibal was repeatedly accused of crimes by the Roman Senate (Valerius Maximus, “Nine books on memorable deeds and sayings”, 5.3.2) | “Ungrateful fatherland, you will not even have my bones!” \n— Scipio Africanus in his epitaph, after he who defeated Hannibal was repeatedly accused of crimes by the Roman Senate (Valerius Maximus, “Nine books on memorable deeds and sayings”, 5.3.2) | ||||
| “Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.” \n— Scipio Africanus, replying to Hannibal's offer of peace terms before the Battle of Zama (Livy, “History of Rome”, XXX. 31) | “Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.” \n— Scipio Africanus, replying to Hannibal's offer of peace terms before the Battle of Zama (Livy, “History of Rome”, XXX. 31) | ||||
| “But tactical science is only one part of generalship. A general must be capable of equipping his forces and providing for his men. He must also be inventive, hardworking, and watchful, bullheaded and brilliant, friendly and fierce, straightforward and subtle.” \n— Socrates (Xenophon, “Memorabilia”, 3.1.6) | “But tactical science is only one part of generalship. A general must be capable of equipping his forces and providing for his men. He must also be inventive, hardworking, and watchful, bullheaded and brilliant, friendly and fierce, straightforward and subtle.” \n— Socrates (Xenophon, “Memorabilia”, 3.1.6) | ||||
| “It is necessary to know the strength of the city and of the enemy, so that, if the city is stronger, one may recommend her to go to war, but if weaker than the enemy, may persuade her to beware.” \n— Socrates (Xenophon, “Memorabilia”, 3.6.9) | “It is necessary to know the strength of the city and of the enemy, so that, if the city is stronger, one may recommend her to go to war, but if weaker than the enemy, may persuade her to beware.” \n— Socrates (Xenophon, “Memorabilia”, 3.6.9) | ||||
| “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates, in his defense when trialled for corrupting the youth and not worshipping the proper gods (he later drank hemlock after the death sentence) \n— Plato (“Apology”, 38a) | “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates, in his defense when trialled for corrupting the youth and not worshipping the proper gods (he later drank hemlock after the death sentence) \n— Plato (“Apology”, 38a) | ||||
| “The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways – I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.” Socrates, in his defense when trialled for corrupting the youth and not worshipping the proper gods (he later drank hemlock after the death sentence) \n— Plato (“Apology”, 42a) | “The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways – I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.” Socrates, in his defense when trialled for corrupting the youth and not worshipping the proper gods (he later drank hemlock after the death sentence) \n— Plato (“Apology”, 42a) | ||||
| “Walls and ships are nothing without men living together inside them.” \n— Sophocles (“Oedipus Rex”) | “Walls and ships are nothing without men living together inside them.” \n— Sophocles (“Oedipus Rex”) | ||||
| “We accepted an empire that was offered to us and refused to give it up under the pressure of three of the strongest motives: fear, honor and interest. It was not we who set the example, for it has always been the law that the weak should be subject to the strong.” \n— Speech of an Athenian embassy in Sparta (Thucydides, “History of the Peloponnesian War”, I. 76.2) | “We accepted an empire that was offered to us and refused to give it up under the pressure of three of the strongest motives: fear, honor and interest. It was not we who set the example, for it has always been the law that the weak should be subject to the strong.” \n— Speech of an Athenian embassy in Sparta (Thucydides, “History of the Peloponnesian War”, I. 76.2) | ||||
| “He could boast that he found a city of brick and left it a city of marble.” \n— Suetonius, commenting on the many building projects of Augustus in Rome (“Divus Augustus”, sec 38) | “He could boast that he found a city of brick and left it a city of marble.”\n— Suetonius, commenting on the many building projects of Augustus in Rome (“Divus Augustus”, 28.3) | ||||
| “Moderation in all things.” \n— Terence (“The Girl from Andros”, 61) | “Moderation in all things.” \n— Terence (“The Girl from Andros”, 61) | ||||
| “Fortune favors the bold.” \n— Terence in a play about a great Athenian admiral (“Phormio”, 203) | “Fortune favors the bold.” \n— Terence in a play about a great Athenian admiral (“Phormio”, 203) | ||||
| “I do not know how to tune the lyre or play the harp, but I do know how to raise a city that was small and unimportant to glory and greatness.” \n— Themistocles, defending his lack of cultural sophistication (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Themistocles”, sec. 2) | “I do not know how to tune the lyre or play the harp, but I do know how to raise a city that was small and unimportant to glory and greatness.” \n— Themistocles, defending his lack of cultural sophistication (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Themistocles”, sec. 2) | ||||
| “Strike, if you will, but listen.” \n— Themistocles, in a heated discussion with the Spartan fleet commander who threatened to beat him with his staff, before the Battle of Salamis (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Themistocles”, sec. 11) | “Strike, if you will, but listen.” \n— Themistocles, in a heated discussion with the Spartan fleet commander who threatened to beat him with his staff, before the Battle of Salamis (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Themistocles”, sec. 11) | ||||
| “The Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians; your mother commands me, and you command your mother.” \n— Themistocles, jokingly to his infant son (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Themistocles”, sec. 18) | “The Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians; your mother commands me, and you command your mother.” \n— Themistocles, jokingly to his infant son (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Themistocles”, sec. 18) | ||||
| “So little pains does the mob take in finding out the truth, accepting readily the first story at hand.” \n— Thucydides (“History of the Peloponnesian War”, I. 21.3) | “So little pains does the mob take in finding out the truth, accepting readily the first story at hand.” \n— Thucydides (“History of the Peloponnesian War”, I. 21.3) | ||||
| “The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this caused in Sparta, made war inevitable.” \n— Thucydides (“History of the Peloponnesian War”, I. 23.6) | “The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this caused in Sparta, made war inevitable.” \n— Thucydides (“History of the Peloponnesian War”, I. 23.6) | ||||
| “War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.” \n— Thucydides (“History of the Peloponnesian War”, I. 83.2) | “War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.” \n— Thucydides (“History of the Peloponnesian War”, I. 83.2) | ||||
| “It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.” \n— Thucydides (“History of the Peloponnesian War”, III. 39.5) | “It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.” \n— Thucydides (“History of the Peloponnesian War”, III. 39.5) | ||||
| “This was the greatest action that happened in all this war, and all others that we have heard of amongst the Greeks, being to the victors most glorious and most calamitous to the vanquished. For they were utterly and at all points defeated, and their sufferings were many. Army and fleet and all they ever had perished, nothing was saved and few of so many ever returned home. Thus ended the Sicilian expedition.” \n— Thucydides (“History of the Peloponnesian War”, VII. 87.6–7) | “This was the greatest action that happened in all this war, and all others that we have heard of amongst the Greeks, being to the victors most glorious and most calamitous to the vanquished. For they were utterly and at all points defeated, and their sufferings were many. Army and fleet and all they ever had perished, nothing was saved and few of so many ever returned home. Thus ended the Sicilian expedition.” \n— Thucydides (“History of the Peloponnesian War”, VII. 87.6–7) | ||||
| “As the world goes, justice is only a matter between equals, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” \n— Thucydides, describing Athenians addressing the defeated Melians who are unwilling to surrender (“History of the Peloponnesian War”, V. 89.1) | “As the world goes, justice is only a matter between equals, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” \n— Thucydides, describing Athenians addressing the defeated Melians who are unwilling to surrender (“History of the Peloponnesian War”, V. 89.1) | ||||
| “When the Lacedaemonians were no longer able to run after them, the skirmishers \[…] all charged them at once, casting stones, arrows, and darts to the closest man at hand.” \n— Thucydides, describing the Spartan disaster at the Battle of Sphacteria (“History of the Peloponnesian War”, IV. 34.2) | “When the Lacedaemonians were no longer able to run after them, the skirmishers \[…] all charged them at once, casting stones, arrows, and darts to the closest man at hand.” \n— Thucydides, describing the Spartan disaster at the Battle of Sphacteria (“History of the Peloponnesian War”, IV. 34.2) | ||||
| “The soldiers fight and die to support others in wealth and luxury and they are called masters of the world without owning a single piece of farmland of their own.” \n— Tiberius Gracchus, advocating for land reform to the benefit of homeless and unemployed veterans whose lands had often been bought up why they were on campaign (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Tiberius Gracchus”, sec. 9) | “The wild beasts of Italy have their caves to retire to, but the brave veterans who spilled their blood in her cause have nothing left but air and light. They wander around homeless with their wives and children.”\n— Tiberius Gracchus, advocating for land reform to the benefit of homeless and unemployed veterans whose lands had often been bought up while they were on campaign. (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Tiberius Gracchus”, 9.4–5) | ||||
| “The wild beasts of Italy have their caves to retire to, but the brave veterans who spilled their blood in her cause have nothing left but air and light. They wander around homeless with their wives and children.” \n— Tiberius Gracchus, advocating for land reform to the benefit of homeless and unemployed veterans whose lands had often been bought up why they were on campaign (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Tiberius Gracchus”, sec. 9) | “The soldiers fight and die to support others in wealth and luxury and they are called masters of the world without owning a single piece of farmland of their own.”\n— Tiberius Gracchus, advocating for land reform to the benefit of homeless and unemployed veterans whose lands had often been bought up while they were on campaign. (Plutarch, “Parallel Lives”, “Tiberius Gracchus”, 9.5) | ||||
| “Do not trust the horse, Trojans! I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.” \n— Virgil (“Aeneid”, II. 48–49) | “Do not trust the horse, Trojans! I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.” \n— Virgil (“Aeneid”, II. 48–49) | ||||
| “Prepared for either alternative.” \n— Virgil (“Aeneid”, II. 61) | “Prepared for either alternative.” \n— Virgil (“Aeneid”, II. 61) | ||||
| “Homer and Hesiod ascribed to their Gods all things that are a disgrace among mortals: stealing, adultery, deceiving one another.” \n— Xenophanes (fragment 11) | “Homer and Hesiod ascribed to their Gods all things that are a disgrace among mortals: stealing, adultery, deceiving one another.” \n— Xenophanes (fragment 11) | ||||
| “If oxen and horses and lions had hands, and could paint, and produce works of art as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and oxen like oxen, and make their God's bodies each in their own image.” \n— Xenophanes (fragment 15) | “If oxen and horses and lions had hands, and could paint, and produce works of art as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and oxen like oxen, and make their God's bodies each in their own image.” \n— Xenophanes (fragment 15) | ||||
| “The Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed, the Thracians say theirs have blue eyes and red hair.” \n— Xenophanes (fragment 16) | “The Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed, the Thracians say theirs have blue eyes and red hair.” \n— Xenophanes (fragment 16) | ||||
| “These are the right questions to ask, in winter around the fire \[…]: Who are you, friend? What is your land? And how old were you when the Medes \[Persians] came?” \n— Xenophanes, likely referring to a punitive expedition against Greek cities in Ionia (fragment 17) | “These are the right questions to ask, in winter around the fire \[…]: Who are you, friend? What is your land? And how old were you when the Medes \[Persians] came?” \n— Xenophanes, likely referring to a punitive expedition against Greek cities in Ionia (fragment 17) | ||||
| “A prudent commander will never take risks unnecessarily, except when it is clear beforehand that he will have the advantage.” \n— Xenophon (“The Cavalry General”, 4.13) | “A prudent commander will never take risks unnecessarily, except when it is clear beforehand that he will have the advantage.” \n— Xenophon (“The Cavalry General”, 4.13) | ||||
| “Attack the enemy where he is weakest, even if that is a long way off, since hard work is less dangerous than a struggle against superior forces.” \n— Xenophon (“The Cavalry General”, sec. 4.14) | “Attack the enemy where he is weakest, even if that is a long way off, since hard work is less dangerous than a struggle against superior forces.” \n— Xenophon (“The Cavalry General”, sec. 4.14) | ||||
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