Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Written in Mid-Century, 1st AD

 The duty of a general is to ride by the ranks on horseback, show himself to those in danger, praise the brave, threaten the cowardly, encourage the lazy, fill up gaps, transpose a unit if necessary, bring aid to the wearied, anticipate the crisis, the hour and the outcome.

- Onasander

[Quoted in In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire by Adrian Goldsworthy]

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