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{Author_1} Plautus, Poenulus, Act V Scene 1
{Quote_1} Hyth alonim vualonuth sicorathi si ma com sith
{trans_1} I worship the Gods and Goddesses who preside over this city.
{Author_2} Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, 20.10.4
{Quote_2} When wars are announced, wisdom is driven from their midst,
{trans_2} matters waged by force; the good speaker is shunned, the rude soldier loved.
{Author_3} Legend on a Parthian Coin
{Quote_3} Basileos Basileon Arsakou Euergetou Dikaiou Epiphanous Philillenos
{trans_3} Of the King of Kings, Arsaces, Beneficent, Just, Outstanding, Friend to Greeks
{Author_4} Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Medea 196
{Quote_4} Iniqua nunquam regna perpetuo manent.
{trans_4} Stern masters do not reign long.
{Author_5} Aeschylus
{Quote_5} In war, truth is the first casualty
{Author_6} Quintus Horatius Flaccus, The Odes, Book III, Ode II, XIII
{Quote_6} Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
{trans_6} It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
{Author_7} Publius Flavius Vegetius
{Quote_7} Qui desiderat pacem praeparet bellum
{trans_7} Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
{Author_8} Publius Flavius Vegetius
{Quote_8} An ambuscade, if discovered and promptly surrounded, will repay the intended mischief with interest.
{Author_9} Socrates, in Plato's Apology, 28d
{Quote_9} Wherever a man stations himself... there he must stand his ground and face danger...
{trans_9} and give no thought to death or anything else but shame.
{Author_10} Albius Tibullus,Elegiae I, 10:1-2
{Quote_10} Quis fuit, horrendos primus qui protulit enses? Quam ferus et vere ferreus ille fuit!
{trans_10} Who was the first that forged the deadly blade? Of rugged steel his savage soul was made.
{Author_11} Hannibal Barca at the age of 9, in Silius Italicus, Punica, 1:114-115
{Quote_11} I swear so soon as age will permit I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome.
{Author_12} Sallust, Letter of Mithridates, 17-21
{Quote_12} The Romans turned eastward militarily only after the ocean had blocked their westward advance.
{trans_12} Since the beginning they have possessed nothing that they have not stolen: home, wives, lands, empire.
{Author_13} Hannibal Barca,to a soldier astonished by the numerical superiority of the Romans at Cannae, 216BC
{Quote_13} There is one thing, Gisgo, yet more astonishing, which you take no notice of.
{trans_13} In all those great numbers before us, there is not one man called Gisgo.
{Author_14} Boudicca, as quoted by Tacitus, in Annals, XIV, 3
{Quote_14} From the pride and arrogance of the Romans nothing is sacred.
{trans_14} But the vengeful gods are now at hand. On this spot we must either conquer, or die with glory.
{Author_15} Publius Ovidius Naso
{Quote_15} The gods favour the bold.
{Author_16} Tiridates I of Armenia, according to G. Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, 15:1
{Quote_16} Non enim ignavia magna imperia contineri.
{trans_16} Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
{Author_17} King Artabanus of Parthia in: Tacitus, Annals, 6.31
{Quote_17} At the same time he talked in bold and menacing ways about the old boundaries of the Persian and Macedonian empires,
{trans_17} and his intention of taking the territories that Cyrus once held and after him Alexander.
{Author_18} Dionysius of Halicarnassus
{Quote_18} Only the brave enjoy noble and glorious deaths.
{Author_19} Herodotus Book 4 (Melpomene) 93
{Quote_19} The Kyrmianai and the Nipsaioi surrendered to Darius without fighting; but the Getai, the bravest and most
{trans_19} upright in their dealings of all the people of Thrace, always obstinate, had to be subdued by force.
{Author_20} Ezekiel 25:17
{Quote_20} I will carry out great vengeance on them and punish them in my wrath.
{trans_20} Then they will know that I am the lord, when I take my vengeance upon them.
{Author_21} Herodotus 1.87.4
{Quote_21} Nobody of sound mind chooses war over peace, for in one case sons bury their fathers,
{trans_21} in the other fathers bury their sons.
{Author_22} Sibylline Oracles, 8.121-9
{Quote_22} And no more under slavish yoke to thee will either Greek or Syrian put his neck, barbarian or any nation, thou shalt be
{trans_22} plundered and shalt be destroyed for what thou didst, and wailing aloud in fear thou shalt give until thou shalt repay.
{Author_23} Ezekiel, XXVI, 10
{Quote_23} The walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots.
{Author_24} Lucius Annaeus Seneca
{Quote_24} Ignoranti, quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est
{trans_24} If a man does not know to what port he is sailing, no wind is favourable.
{Author_25} Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae Morales IV, 30:17
{Quote_25} Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis
{trans_25} We do not fear death, but the thought of death.
{Author_26} Euripides
{Quote_26} Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
{Author_27} Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De Providentia 4:12
{Quote_27} Contemptum periculorum adsiduitas periclitandi dabit.
{trans_28} Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
{Author_28} Tyrtaeus
{Quote_28} Go near, strike with a spear or a sword at close range and kill a man. Set foot against foot,
{trans_28} shield against shield, chest against chest, and fight a man, gripping the hilt of a sword or a long spear.
{Author_29} Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum 74:3 (Concerning Jugurtha; unnamed battle)
{Quote_29} Wherever the king was present in person, there was some show of resistance;
{trans_29} everywhere else his soldiers broke and fled at the first charge.
{Author_30} Leonidas replies to Xerxes at Thermopylae, Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, 225c.11
{Quote_30} When Xerxes wrote again, "Hand over your arms," Leonidas wrote in reply, "Μολον λάβε", "Come and take them."
{Author_31} Cicero, On the Consular Provinces
{Quote_31} It has now finally come about that the limits of our empire and of the earth are one and the same.
{Author_32} Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Verrem, 1:2
{Quote_32} Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit
{trans_32} Nothing is so well fortified that money cannot capture it.
{Author_33} Polybius, The Histories, describing the Battle of Telamon
{Quote_33} The Romans were terrified by the size of the Celtic host, and the din of the whole army shouting their war cries.
{trans_33} Terrifying too were the naked warriors in front, all in the prime of life and finely built men...
{Author_34} Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum 85:41 (Marius, addressing the Comitia)
{Quote_34} Sudorem, pulverem et alia talia relinquant nobis, quibus illa epulis iucundiora sunt.
{trans_34} Sweat, dust, and all such things let them leave to us, to whom they are sweeter than feasts.
{Author_35} Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum 85:50 (Marius, concluding his address to the Comitia)
{Quote_35} Plura dicerem, Quirites, si timidis virtutem verba adderent. Nam strenuis abunde dictum puto.
{trans_35} I would say more, citizens, if words could make cowards brave. For the resolute I think I have spoken abundantly.
{Author_36} Caratacos of the Catuvellauni before the Romans, Tacitus Annales Book 12
{Quote_36} If you want everyone in the world at your command, does it follow everyone must accept slavery?
{Author_37} Sallust, Bellum Jugurthinum, 18.1
{Quote_37} Initially Africa was held by the Gaetulians and Libyans, rough and uncouth peoples
{trans_37} whose food was the flesh of wild animals and fodder from the ground, as for cattle.
{Author_38} Thucydides
{Quote_38} Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.
{Author_39} Diodorus Siculus, Universal History, 32.5
{Quote_39} The Romans make it a point to embark only upon wars that are just,
{trans_39} and to make no casual or precipitate decisions about such matters.
{Author_40} Thucydides, quoting the Athenian envoy to the neutral Melians, explaining why they should submit without fighting
{Quote_40} Right is only in question between equal; the strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must.
{Author_41} Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippic 5:5
{Quote_41} Nervos belli, pecuniam infinitam.
{trans_41} The sinews of war are infinite money.
{Author_42} Hanno the Navigator
{Quote_42} We arrived at another island, full of savage people, the greater part of whom were women, whose bodies were hairy,
{trans_42} whom our interpreters called Gorillae. Having killed them, we flayed them, and brought their skins with us to Carthage.
{Author_43} G. Cornelius Tacitus, Historiae, 3:20
{Quote_43} Ratione et consilio, propriis ducis artibus.
{trans_43} The proper arts of a general are judgement and prudence.
{Author_44} Hannibal, asked by Antiochus if his richly ornamented army was enough to defeat the Romans at Magnesia, ca. 189BC
{Quote_44} Indeed they will be more than enough, even though the Romans are the greediest nation on earth!
{Author_45} Titus Livius 8.23
{Quote_45} Roman soldiers will march not whither the enemy summons them, but whither their commander leads them.
{Author_46} Cicero, Philippics, 6.19
{Quote_46} It is not permitted for the Roman people to be in servitude, whom the immortal gods wanted to rule over all peoples.
{Author_47} Vergil, Aeneid, 6.851-3
{Quote_47} Remember by your empire to rule the world’s peoples (for these will be your arts),
{trans_47} to impose the practice of peace, to be sparing to the subjected, and to beat down the defiant.
{Author_48} Athenogoras of Syracuse
{Quote_48} If a man does not strike first, he will be the first struck.
{Author_49} Titus Livius 8.22
{Quote_49} The Greeks, a people valiant in words rather than in deeds.
{Author_50} Cyrus Cylinder
{Quote_50} All kings who sit on thrones, from every quarter, from the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea, who inhabit remote districts and
{trans_50} the kings of Amurru who live in tents, all of them, brought their weighty tribute into Shuanna, and kissed my feet.
{Author_51} Polybius, The Histories, On the Mercenaries War
{Quote_51} This war had lasted for three years and four months, and it far excelled all
{trans_51} wars we know of in cruelty and defiance of principle.
{Author_52} Heracleitos of Ephesus
{Quote_52} Πολεμος παντων μέν πατήρ έστι
{trans_52} War is the father of all things.
{Author_53} Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Catilīnam
{Quote_53} Ō tempora! Ō mōrēs!
{trans_53} O the times! O the morals!
{Author_54} Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Catilīnam
{Quote_54} Oculīs dēsignat ad mortem nōs!
{trans_54} By means of his eyes he designates us to death!
{Author_55} Terence, Phormio, Act 3, Line 506
{Quote_55} Auribus teneō lupum
{trans_55} I am holding the wolf by his ears.
{Author_56} Diogenes Laertios ΙΙ,54-55, Vitae Philosophorum
{Quote_56} It is narrated that as Xenophon was sacrificing, wearing a wreath, news came that his son had died. He was shaken,
{trans_56} but continued, when he leared that he died fighting. He never shed a tear. 'I knew' he said 'that I raised a mortal'.
{Author_57} Aristophanes Acharnians, Act 4
{Quote_57} Ah! The generals! They are numerous but not good for much!
{Author_58} Jugurtha looking back at Rome, The Jugurthine War, Ch. XXXV
{Quote_58} A city for sale, soon to fall if once it find a buyer.
{Author_59} King Bocchus I of Mauretania, The Jugurthine War, Ch. CX
{Quote_59} To my thinking, it is less dishonourable for a king to be surpassed in arms than in generosity.
{Author_60} Julian, VI speech, 181 b.
{Quote_60} As Antisthenes was suffering from a serious and incurable disease,
{trans_60} Diogenes of Sinope is said to have given him a sword saying, 'In case you would need the good services of a friend'.
{Author_61} Strabo, Geography, 4.1.5
{Quote_61} But there are still traces of the Massiliots’ ancient strength,
{trans_61} especially their aptitude in making instruments and outfitting ships.
{Author_62} Diogenes Laertios I,35, Vitae Philosophorum
{Quote_62} Thales was proclaiming that death isn't any different than life.
{trans_62} 'So, why don't you die?' someone asked. 'Because there is no difference' he replied.
{Author_63} Tacitus, Agricola, 21
{Quote_63} The Britons gradually drifted into alluring vices: promenades, baths, sumptuous dinners.
{trans_63} The naive natives called this part of their servitude “culture”.
{Author_64} Suetonius, Divus Iulius, paragraph 32/3
{Quote_64} Caesar exclaimed, " Let us go where the omens of the Gods and the iniquity of our enemies call us.
{trans_64} 'iacta alea est' - The dice are thrown."
{Author_65} Adherbal, The Jugurthine War, Ch. XIV
{Quote_65} Shall our family, then, never be at peace? Shall we always be harassed with war, bloodshed, and exile?
{Author_66} But in Greece every state is run by irresponsible seated assemblies.
{Quote_66} Cicero, In Defence of Flaccus, 7.16-17
{Author_67} Xenophon, Hellenica, 1.6.15
{Quote_67} Κονωνι δε ειπεν οτι παυσει αυτον μοιχωντα την θαλατταν
{trans_67} Kallikratidas said to Konon, "I will stop you screwing my ocean".
{Quote_68} ΔΕΞΑ - "Take that" or "Catch"
{Author_68} Inscription found on a 4th century BC sling bullet from Athens
{Author_69} Calgacus, leader of the Caledonians: G. Cornelius Tacitus
{Quote_69} We are the last people on earth, and the last to be free.
{Author_70} Calgacus, leader of the Caledonians: G. Cornelius Tacitus, Agricola 30.5
{Quote_70} To pillage, murder and spoil, they call it the false name of Empire, and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
{Author_71} Plutarch, 'Life of Pompey, 60.2.9'
{Quote_71} Caesar declared in Greek with loud voice to those who were present
{trans_71} "Ανερρίφθω κύβος", "Let the dice be thrown", and led the army across.
{Author_72} Spartan Oath sworn at Platea, from an Athenian Inscription (Tod II.204, lines 25-8)
{Quote_72} I shall not desert my taxiarchos or the leader of my enomotia, whether he is alive or dead,
{trans_72} and I shall not leave the battlefield unless our commanders lead us away.
{Author_73} Xenophon, Hellenica, 6.3.6
{Quote_73} If it really has been fated by the gods that mankind must wage wars, then it is up to us
{trans_73} to be as slow as possible to start any, and, if a war does break out, to end it as soon as we possibly can.
{Author_74} The Sayings of Kings and Commanders, attributed to Plutarc
{Quote_74} Scylurus [a Scythian King] on his death-bed, leaving eighty sons, gave them a bundle of javelins and said,
{trans_74} "Break them". They could not; and he broke one, saying, "Together you remain strong, seperated, you shall become weak."
{Author_75} Seleucid army at the Battle of Beth-Zechariah, 1 Maccabees 6:37
{Quote_75} And upon the elephants were wooden towers, strong and covered; they were fastened upon each beast by special harness,
{trans_75} and upon each were four armed men who fought from there, and also its Indian driver.
{Author_76} The Sayings of Kings and Commanders, attributed to Plutarch
{Quote_76} Pyrrhus, not being able to keep Sicily, turned to his friends and said,
{trans_76} "What a fine wrestling ring do we leave to the Romans and Carthaginians!"
{Author_77} Letter from Apion, a Roman recruit, to his father Epimachus [Select Papyri I (1932) #112 (2 A.D.)]
{Quote_77} On arriving at Misenum, I received from Caesar three gold pieces for travelling expenses. And it is well with me.
{Author_78} Polybius, The Histories, Book XVIII, Chapters 28-32
{Quote_78} Many considerations may easily convince us that, if only the phalanx has its proper formation and strength,
{trans_78} nothing can resist it face to face or withstand its charge.
{Author_79} Simonides, Epitaph for the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae
{Quote_79} Ώ ξειν’, άγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις οτι τηδε κείμεθα, τοίς κείνων ρήμασι πειθόμενοι
{trans_79} Stranger, tell the Spartans that we lie here, obedient to their orders.
{Author_80} Thucydides
{Quote_80} A collision at sea can ruin your entire day.
{Author_81} Plato, Republic, Book VIII, 566a
{Quote_81} When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them,
{trans_81} then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
{Author_82} Response of the Carthaginian Council to the Roman declaration of war. Polybius, Book III, Ch. 33, p. 77
{Quote_82} "We accept it!"
{Author_83} Judas Maccabeus before the Battle of Elasa, 1 Maccabees 9:10
{Quote_83} Far be it from us to do such a thing as to flee from them. If our time has come, let us die bravely for our brethren,
{trans_83} and leave no cause to question our honour.
{Author_84} Euripides
{Quote_85} Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
{Author_85} Eleazar Avaran at the Battle of Beth-Zechariah, 1 Maccabees 6:46
{Quote_85} He got under the elephant, stabbed it from beneath, and killed it; but it fell to the ground upon him and he died.
{Author_86} Archilochos
{Quote_86} And by a prudent flight and cunning save a life which valour could not, from the grave.
{trans_86} A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
{Author_87} Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, 107
{Quote_87} Make large your hearts within you. Undismayed engage in battle with grown men.
{trans_87} Be bold; and standing fast forsake not those whose feet no longer keep their swiftness.
{Author_88} Archilochos
{Quote_88} Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield,
{trans_88} Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.
{Author_89} Medea, Euripides
{Quote_89} I would very much rather stand three times in the front of battle than bear one child.
{Author_90} Simonides, Epigram for the Athenians at Plataea
{Quote_90} If to die well is the greatest part of valour, fortune granted to this to us above all men.
{trans_90} For in our eagerness to clothe Greece in liberty, we lie in unaging good repute.
{Author_91} Xenophon, The Cavalry Commander, 4.1.7
{Quote_91} You must also have taken steps to enlist the services of spies before the outbreak of war.
{Author_92} Xenophon, The Cavalry Commander, 1.1.24
{Quote_92} To make the men who are under your command obedient, impress on them by word of mouth the many advantages of obedience
{trans_92} to authority, and that good discipline brings gain and insubordination loss in every respect.
{Author_93} Lucretius De Rerum Natura 2.1-2
{Quote_93} It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about,
{trans_93} to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
{Author_94} Cn. Pompeius Magnus: Plutarch's Life of Pompey
{Quote_94} Stop quoting law. We carry Swords.
{Author_95} Menander
{Quote_95} The man who runs away will fight again.
{Author_96} Homer, Iliad, Book XXII, lines 262-263; Achilles to Hector
{Quote_96} There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind.
{Author_97} Thucydides: The Corcyraean speech to the Athenians, 1.34.3
{Quote_97} It is the one with the least regrets over concessions to the enemy who will continue in the greatest security.
{Author_98} Thucydides: Perikles' Funeral Oration
{Quote_98} Even for those who were worse in other ways it is right that first place be given to valor against enemies.
{Author_99} Lucius Annaeus Seneca
{Quote_99} In war there is no prize for runner-up.
{Author_100} Battle of Elasa, 160 BC, 1 Maccabees 9:12-13
{Quote_100} Flanked by the two companies, the phalanx advanced to the sound of the trumpets; and the men with Judas also blew their
{trans_100} trumpets. The earth was shaken by the noise of the armies, and the battle raged from morning till evening.
{Author_101} G. Julius Caesar, Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 51.12
{Quote_101} But for those who are endowed with some great command and spend their years at the zenith, all mortals know their deeds.
{Author_102} Alexander the Great, as quoted by Eratosthenes of Cyrene
{Quote_102} To me every bad Greek is a Barbarian and every good Barbarian is a Greek.
{Author_103} Xenophon, Anabasis, 4.8.14
{Quote_103} Xenophon said, “Soldiers, these men yonder whom you see are the only ones who still stand in the way...
{trans_103} if we possibly can, we must simply eat these fellows raw.”
{Author_104} Xenophon, Anabasis, 4.7.21-25
{Quote_104} ...They heard the soldiers shouting, "θαλαττα θαλαττα" ("The Sea! The Sea!")...and when all had reached the summit,
{trans_104} then indeed they fell to embracing one another, and generals and captains as well, with tears in their eyes.
{Author_105} Plato, Republic, Book III, 389b
{Quote_105} The rulers of the city may, if anybody, fitly lie on account of enemies or citizens for the benefit of the state;
{trans_105} no others may have anything to do with it
{Author_106} Hieronymus of Cardia
{Quote_106} The Celts rushed on their enemy with the fury of wild beasts. Hacked with swords and pierced with missles,their rage
{trans_106} died only with life itself. Some even tore out the spears that struck them and threw them back at the Greeks.
{Author_107} Herodotus, 7.226
{Quote_107} There were so many Persians that when they shot their arrows, they hid the sun.
{trans_107} Dieneces made light of this, saying that if so, they could have their fight in the shade.
{Author_108} Kurush Wuzurg (Cyrus the Great)
{Quote_108} How often have cities allowed themselves to be persuaded into war, and that by advisers who were thought the
{trans_108} wisest of men, and then been utterly destroyed by those whom they attacked!
{Author_109} Herodotus
{Quote_109} And the Persians educate their children, beginning at five years old and going on till twenty, in three things only,
{trans_109} in riding, in shooting, and in speaking the truth.
{Author_110} Maharbal, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, 22.51
{Quote_110} Vincere scis, Hannibal, victoria uti nescis
{trans_110} You know how to win a victory, Hannibal, but not how to take advantage of it.
{Author_111} The Sayings of Kings and Commanders, attributed to Plutarch
{Quote_111} Chabrias was accustomed to say, that an army of stags, with a lion for their commander,
{trans_111} was more formidable than an army of lions led by a stag.
{Author_112} Polybius
{Quote_112} A good general not only sees the way to victory, he also knows when victory is impossible.
{Author_113} Polybius
{Quote_113} In war we must always leave room for strokes of fortune, and accidents that cannot be foreseen.
{Author_114} Publilius Syrus, Sententiae
{Quote_114} Qui culpae ignoscit uni, suadet pluribus.
{trans_114} Pardon one offence and you encourage the commission of many.
{Author_115} Publilius Syrus, Sententiae
{Quote_115} Prospicere in pace oportet, quod bellum iuvet.
{trans_115} We should provide in peace what we need in war.
{Author_116} Kol 'ahad hu' barbari lemisehu.
{Quote_116} Everyone is a barbarian to someone (Punic).
{Author_117} Kurush Wuzurg (Cyrus the Great)
{Quote_117} But to-day you are here, and your men behind you, stalwart and stout of limb, and to-morrow they shall have armour.
{trans_117} None could find fault with their thews and sinews, and as for their spirit, it is for us to see it does not fail.
{Author_118} Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae Morales XI-XIII, 87:30
{Quote_118} Sic quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit: occidentis telum est.
{trans_118} A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands.
{Author_119} Solon of Athens
{Quote_119} Learn to obey before you command.
{Author_120} Publilius Syrus
{Quote_120} Caret periclo, qui etiam cum est tutus cavet.
{trans_120} He is best secure from dangers who is on his guard even when he seems safe.
{Author_121} Gladiator's Oath, Petronius, Satyricon 117
{Quote_121} Uri vinciri verberari ferroque necari
{trans_121} I will endure to be burned, to be bound, to be beaten, and to be killed by the sword.
{Author_122} Silius Italicus
{Quote_122} In war we must be speedy.
{Author_123} Socrates
{Quote_123} A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house.
{Author_124} Sophacles
{Quote_124} Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
{Author_125} Publius Statius
{Quote_125} The cruelty of war makes for peace.
{Author_126} Aristophanes, "Birds"
{Quote_126} It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
{trans_126} And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.
{Author_127} Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, Vita Divi Iuli 37, Also Plutarch, Life of Caesar 50
{Quote_127} In his Pontic triumph Caesar displayed an inscription of but three words, "Veni Vidi Vici",
{trans_127} "I came, I saw, I prevailed," not indicating the events of the war but the speed with which it was finished.
{Author_128} G. Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, 15:59
{Quote_128} Etaim fortes viros subitis terreri.
{trans_128} Even the bravest are frightened by sudden terrors.
{Author_129} Everyone is a barbarian to someone.
{Quote_129} Quisque est barbarus alii
{Author_130} G. Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, 3:44
{Quote_130} Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari.
{trans_130} A bad peace is even worse than war.
{Author_131} G. Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, 15:50
{Quote_131} Nisi impunitatis cupido … magnis semper conatibus adversa.
{trans_131} The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
{Author_132} Thucydides
{Quote_132} War is not so much a matter of weapons as of money.
{Author_133} Publius Flavius Vegetius
{Quote_133} An ambush, if discovered and promptly surrounded, will repay the intended mischief with interest.
{Author_134} Hannibal Barca, addressing Phormio's lecture on leadership
{Quote_134} I have seen during my life many an old fool; but this one beats them all.
{Author_135} G. Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico, 1.36
{Quote_135} Ad haec Ariovistus respondit: Ius esse belli, ut qui vicissent eis, quos vicissent, quem ad modum vellent imperarent.
{trans_135} To this Ariovistus responded: It was by the right of war that victors dictate as they please to the vanquished.
{Author_136} Publius Flavius Vegetius
{Quote_136} A general is not easily overcome who can form a true judgement of his own and the enemy's forces.
{Author_137} Paulus Aemilius, the victor of the battle of Pydna
{Quote_137} Μηδεν εωρακεναι φoβερωτερον και δεινοτερον φαλλαγγος μακεδονικης
{trans_137} Never before have I seen anything more fearsome and terrible than the Macedonian phalanx.
{Author_138} Latin proverb
{Quote_138} Victory loves prudence.
{Author_139} Horace, Letters, 2.1.156
{Quote_139} Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes
{trans_139} Greece once captured, captured its wild conqueror.
{Author_140} The Sayings of Kings and Commanders, attributed to Plutarch
{Quote_140} Pyrrhus was asked by his sons, when they were boys, to whom he would leave the kingdom.
{trans_140} To him of you, said he, that has the sharpest sword.
{Author_141} Hannibal Barca, encouraging his troops before Cannae, 216BC (Polybius, Book 3)
{Quote_141} Thank the gods, for it is they who working to aid you to victory have led the enemy on to such ground, and thank myself
{trans_141} for compelling them to fight, a thing they cannot avoid, and to fight here where the advantages are manifestly ours.
{Author_142} Sextus Julius Frontinus, Strategemata Book 3
{Quote_142} Depositis autem operibus et machinamentis, quorum expleta iam pridem inventione nullam
{trans_142} Abandon consideration of works and engines of war, the invention and the improvement of which has reached its limit.
{Author_143} The Sayings of Kings and Commanders, attributed to Plutarch
{Quote_143} When Themistocles' son was saucy towards his mother, he said that this boy had more power than all the Greeks,
{trans_143} for the Athenians governed Greece, he the Athenians, his wife him, and his son his wife.
{Author_144} Homer, Illiad, Book XII, line 243
{Quote_144} There is one omen, and one only - that a man should fight for his country.
{Author_145} Aeschylus
{Quote_145} ...now in place of the young men urns and ashes are carried home to houses of the fighters.
{Author_146} Demosthenes
{Quote_145} Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
{Author_147} Pindar, Fragment 110
{Quote_147} War is sweet to those who have no experience of it, but those who do tremble exceedingly at heart on its approach.
{Author_148} Gaius Julius Caesar, The Civil War, Book III, 68
{Quote_148} Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war,
{trans_148} can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
{Author_149} Gallic inscription in Egypt
{Quote_149} Agomonos ta Caballos ta Terc assubio
{trans_149} Agomonos and Caballos and Terc were here.
{Author_150} Lucius Accius
{Quote_150} Oderint dum metuant.
{trans_150} Let them hate me so long as they fear me.
{Author_151} Archimedes
{Quote_151} ΠΑ ΒΩ ΚΑΙ ΤΑΝ ΓΑΝ ΚΙΝΗΣΩ
{trans_151} Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world.
{Author_152} Xenophon
{Quote_152} Willing obedience always beats forced obedience.
{Author_153} Lucius Annaeus Seneca
{Quote_153} The fortunes of war are always doubtful.
{Author_154} Agis II of Sparta
{Quote_154} The Spartans do not ask how many but where they are.
{Author_155} Frontinus 7.12
{Quote_155} The Cimbri controlled the water supply for Marius' camp. When the soldiers' needed water, Marius pointed toward the
{trans_155} Cimbri said, "There is where you must get it." Thus inspired, the Romans quickly drove the barbarians from the place.
{Author_156} Euripides
{Quote_156} Courage may be taught as a child is taught to speak.
{Author_157} Publius Flavius Vegetius
{Quote_157} Valour is superior to numbers.
{Author_158} G. Cornelius Tacitus
{Quote_158} Valour is the contempt of death and pain.
{Author_159} Trecheng Breth Féne - The Triads of Ireland
{Quote_159} Three shouts of a good warrior's house: the shout of distribution, the shout of sitting down, the shout of rising up.
{Author_160} Trecheng Breth Féne - The Triads of Ireland
{Quote_160} Three things for which an enemy is loved: wealth, beauty, worth.
{Author_161} Trecheng Breth Féne - The Triads of Ireland
{Quote_161} Three bloodsheds that need not be impugned: the bloodshed of battle, of jealousy, of mediating.
{Author_162} Trecheng Breth Féne - The Triads of Ireland
{Quote_162} Three things that constitute a king: a contract with other kings, the feast of Tara, abundance during his reign
{Author_163} Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico, VII, 26
{Quote_163} In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit
{trans_163} In extreme danger fear feels no pity.
{Author_164} Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico, III, 18
{Quote_164} Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
{trans_164} Men gladly believe what they wish.
{Author_165} Tacitus, De Origine et situ Germanorum .14
{Quote_165} Cum ventum in aciem, turpe principi virtute vinci, turpe comitatui virtutem principis non adaequare
{trans_165} In battle, it is shameful for the chief to be surpassed in valor; as it is for the companions not to equal their chief.
{Author_166} Appian, The Mithridatic Wars, III.18
{Quote_166} The scythed chariots charged the Bithynians, cutting some in two and tearing others to pieces. Nicomedes' army was
{trans_166} terrified at seeing men cut in halves and still breathing, or their mangled fragments hanging on the scythes.
{Author_167} Hekastos allotrioi barbaros esti
{Quote_167} Everyone is a barbarian to someone.
{Author_168} Polyaenus, Strategems
{Quote_168} Hannibal persuaded his soldiers that men who died bravely in battle would come back to life soon afterwards.
{trans_168} When a good soldier died bravely, he found a man of identical appearance, and had him say, that he had come back.
{Author_169} Sybilline Prophecies
{Quote_169} Punica centenos durabit poena per annos, Res Romana viro parebit caesariato.
{trans_169} A hundred years of the Punic curse, and Rome shall be slave to a hairy man.
{Author_170} Sophytôs' Stele, found in Kandahar
{Quote_170} Having cultivated the talents of the Archer and the Muses, united with a noble wisdom,
{trans_170} I then thought how to raise again the house of my father.
{Author_171} Claudius Nero, marching to reinforce Livius at the Metaurus (Livy 27.45)
{Quote_171} No commander has ever adopted a plan apparently more reckless, but actually more sure of success, than this of mine.
{trans_171} I am leading you to certain victory.
{Author_172} The Sayings of Kings and Commanders, attributed to Plutarch
{Quote_172} Ateas, the King of Scythia, took prisoner Ismenias, an excellent piper, and commanded him to play;
{trans_172} and when others admired him, he swore it was more pleasant to hear a horse neigh.
{Author_173} Brennus, demanding a ransom of 1,000 pounds of gold from the Romans, and using false weights. Livy, 5.48
{Quote_173} When a Tribune protested, the Gaul threw his sword into the scale, with an exclamation intolerable to Roman ears,
{trans_173} 'Vae Victis!' - Woe to the vanquished!
{Author_174} The Sayings of Kings and Commanders, attributed to Plutarch
{Quote_174} A rhetorician asked Iphicrates in an assembly, who he was that he took so much upon him, - horseman, or footman,
{trans_174} or archer, or shield-bearer. Neither of them, said he, but one that understands how to command all those.
{Author_175} Aristotle, Politics, 1303b12
{Quote_175} Just as in war the crossing of even the smallest streams tears apart formations,
{trans_175} so every difference seems to create conflict.
{Author_176} Simonides, Epigram for the Athenians at Plataea
{Quote_176} If to die well is the greatest part of valour, fortune granted to this to us above all men.
{trans_176} For in our eagerness to clothe Greece in liberty, we lie in unaging good repute.
{Author_177} Polyaenus, Stratagems
{Quote_177} Cleandridas always advised the Thurians against fighting a superior enemy in open battle;
{trans_177} he said that, if the lion's skin was not sufficient, it was necessary to put on the fox's tail.
{Author_178} Polyaenus, Stratagems
{Quote_178} When Iphicrates had forced an enemy into a narrow pass, he always gave them a chance to escape, without forcing
{trans_178} them to fight their way out. He said that there was no reason to compel an enemy to be brave.
{Author_179} Polyaenus, Stratagems
{Quote_179} Timotheus ordered his army to charge immediately, though some men had not arrived; when asked if they should wait until
{trans_179} the others were there, he said, "By no means. All who will fight bravely are here, the rest are not worth waiting for."
{Author_180} Homer, Iliad, 10.627-639 passim
{Quote_180} Odysseus, Achaea's pride and glory- famous Odysseus...Zeus who marshals the storm cloud loves you...
{trans_180} Zeus' daughter too with the shield of thunder. Athena's eyes are shining on you!
{Author_181} Hermocrates of Syracuse
{Quote_181} Nobody is driven in to war by ignorance, and no one who thinks he will gain anything from it is deterred by fear.
{Author_182} Archilochos
{Quote_182} Shield against shield, keep the shield-wall tight. And the gift of death they bring, let no man take.
{Author_183} Archilochos
{Quote_183} Throw forward your chest to the enemy; Keep close in the attack; move back not an inch.
{Author_184} Archilochos
{Quote_184} Dead men cannot hear the peoples' praise. We strive instead, alive, to win honour from the living.
{Author_185} Archilochos
{Quote_185} In war, out of hospitality, we leave them their dead as a gift to remember us by.
{Author_186} Polyaenus, Stratagems
{Quote_186} The Battle of Leuctra remained finely balanced for a long time, until Epaminondas called on his troops to give him
{trans_186} "One more step", and they would have the victory.
{Author_187} Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica
{Quote_187} Philip wrote to the Spartans, asking whether they wished him to come as a friend or as a foe; and they answered,
{trans_187} "Neither."
{Author_188} Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica
{Quote_188} When Philip of Makedon sent some orders to the Spartans by letter, they wrote in reply, "What you wrote about? No."
{Author_189} Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica
{Quote_189} A Spartan was about to kill an enemy when the recall sounded, and he checked the blow.
{trans_189} When asked why, he said, "It is better to obey one's commander than to slay an enemy."
{Author_190} Archilochos
{Quote_190} Let him go first: Ares is a democrat. There are no privileged mean on a battlefield.
{Author_191} Tyrtaeus
{Quote_191} Clench your teeth and, with both feet astride, firm planted on the ground, withstand the foe.
{Author_192} Isokrates, On the Peace
{Quote_192} The war has robbed us of all good things; it has made us poorer; it has compelled us to endure perils;
{trans_192} it has given us a bad name among the Hellenes; and it has in every way overwhelmed us with misfortune.
{Author_193} Sayings of Kings and Commanders, attributed to Plutarch
{Quote_193} Pyrrhus' soldiers called him Eagle. "And I may deserve the title", said he, "while I am borne upon the wings of your arms".
{Author_194} Proverbial
{Quote_194} Fortis cadere, cedere non potest.
{trans_194} A brave man may fall, but he cannot yield.
{Author_195} Polybius, The Histories, Book XVIII, Chapters 28-32
{Quote_195} Many considerations may easily convince us that, if only the phalanx has its proper formation and strength,
{trans_195} nothing can resist it face to face or withstand its charge.
{Author_196} Polybius, The Histories, Book XVIII, Chapters 28-32
{Quote_196} The Macedonian phalanx is difficult, and sometimes impossible, to handle,
{trans_196} because the men cannot act either in squads or separately.
{Author_197} Polybius, The Histories, Book XVIII, Chapters 28-32
{Quote_197} Every Roman, once armed and on the field, is equally well-equipped for every place, time, or appearance of the enemy.
{Author_198} Heracleitos of Ephesus
{Quote_198} Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
{Author_199} Xenophon, Hellenica, 6.3.6
{Quote_199} If it really has been fated by the gods that mankind must wage wars, then it is up to us to be as slow as
{trans_199} possible to start any, and, if a war does break out, to end it as soon as we possibly can.
{Author_200} Homer, Illiad, Book XV, lines 496-497
{Quote_200} If any of you is struck by spear or sword and loses his life,
{trans_200} let him die; he dies with honor who dies fighting for his country.
{Author_201} Frontinus 8.12
{Quote_201} When Sulla's legions broke before the hosts of Mithridates, he drew his sword and told his troops that if asked
{trans_201} where they had left their general, to say, "Fighting in Boeotia." Shamed by these words, they followed him to a man.
{Author_202} Frontinus 5.7
{Quote_202} Viriathus, a Bandit who became leader of the Celtiberians, once pretended to retreat before the Roman cavalry and
{trans_202} led them to a place full of deep holes. He got out by familiar paths, but the Romans sank in the mire and were slain.
{Author_203} Boudicca, Cassius Dio, Roman History, LXII.5
{Quote_203} Let us show them that they are hares and foxes trying to rule over dogs and wolves.
{Author_204} Polyaenus, Stratagems
{Quote_204} Seeing a soldier very intent on displaying the elegance of his shield;
{trans_204} "It is a shame," said Scipio, "for a Roman to pride himself more on the ornament of his left hand, than of his right."
{Author_205} Polyaenus, Stratagems
{Quote_205} Hannibal was trapped by the Romans in a narrow valley. He gathered some cattle, and sent them towards the entrance,
{trans_205} with blazing torches on their horns. This startled the Roman guards, who fled away; and Hannibal escaped without loss.
{Author_206} Polybius, 6.25
{Quote_206} No other people than the Romans are so ready to adopt new fashions and imitate what they see is better in others.
{Author_207} Polybius, 18.29
{Quote_207} Every Roman, once armed and on the field, is equally well-equipped for every place, time, or appearance of the enemy.
{Author_208} Livy, Ad Urbe Condita, 5.41
{Quote_208} A patrician, M. Papirius, enraged a Gaul, who had begun to stroke his beard--in those days worn long--by smiting
{trans_208} him on the head with his ivory staff. He was the first to be killed, the others were butchered in their chairs.
{Author_209} Lucian, Icaromenippus 16.23-4
{Quote_209} If ever I turn my eyes toward the land of the Getae, I always see them making war.
{Author_210} Dio Chrysostom, Orationes, 12.19
{Quote_210} The Getai were restless and without time for words, but instead carrying with them swords.
{Author_211} Titus Livius, Ad Urbe Condita (V,XI)
{Quote_211} Nunquam deos ipsos admouere nocentibus manus; satis esse, si occasione ulciscendi laesos arment
{trans_211} The gods never punish the guilty themselves; it is enough when they arm the injured with the opportunity for vengeance.
{Author_212} Inscripted curse on the Björketorp Runestone
{Quote_212} A Haidz runo runu, falh'k hedra ginnarunaz. Argiu hermalausz, weladauþe, saz þat brytz. Uþarba spa.
{trans_212} Mighty runes are here. Whoever breaks this will be tormented. Treacherous death shall see him. I see destruction.
{quote_213} Urbs antiqua fuit, Tyrii tenuere coloni, Karthago dives opum studiisque asperrima belli.
{trans_213} There was an ancient city, held by Tyre as a colony; Carthage; rich, ruthless and eager in war.
{Author_213} P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid, 1.12
{quote_214} Archimedes not only baffled the enemy, whether at a distance or close at hand, but also killed a great number of them.
{Author_214} Polybius, 8.7
{quote_215} Let us make war, since evidently, you have found peace intolerable.
{Author_215} Publius Scipio Africanus to Hannibal
{quote_216} Scythians take cannabis seed and throw it on red-hot stones where it sends up billows of smoke. The Scythians
{trans_216} howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.
{Author_216} Herodotus, Book 4, Ch. 74
{quote_217} Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
{Author_217} Herodotus,Book 7, Ch. 49
{quote_218} There is always more spirit in attack than in defense.
{Author_218} Titus Livius, Ad Urbe Condita, XXVIII. 44
{quote_219} When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as
{trans_219} the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
{Author_219} Thucydides, Book I, 69
{quote_220} It is from the greatest dangers that the greatest glory is to be won.
{Author_220} Thucydides, Book I, 144
{quote_221} The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them,
{trans_221} glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
{Author_221} Thucydides,Book II, 40
{quote_222} Inter arma enim silent leges
{trans_222} Law stands mute in the midst of arms.
{Author_222} Cicero, De Re Publica, Book 3, Chapter 23
{quote_223} Whom the gods love dies young.
{Author_223} Menander, The Double Deceiver, fragment 125
{quote_224} Timeo Danaos et dona ferentis
{trans_224} I fear the Greeks, even when bearing gifts.
{Author_224} Virgil, Aeneid, Book II, line 48
{quote_225} Audacibus annue coeptis
{trans_225} Look with favor upon a bold beginning.
{Author_225} Virgil, Georgics, Book I, line 40
{quote_226} Audentes fortuna iuvat
{trans_226} Fortune favours the brave.
{Author_226} Virgil, Aeneid, Book X, line 284
{quote_227} Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque
{trans_227} On the tradtions and heros of ancient times stands firm the Roman state
{Author_227} Ennius, Annals, Book 18
{quote_228} Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae.
{trans_228} Of all these, the Belgians are the bravest.
{Author_228} Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico, Book I, Ch. 1
{quote_229} Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
{trans_229} Moreover, I advise that Carthage should be destroyed.
{Author_229} Cato the Elder
{quote_230} Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.
{trans_230} I will either find a way, or make one.
{Author_230} Latin proverb attributed to Hannibal crossing the Alps
{quote_231} The Greeks got into Troy by trying; everything's done by trying.
{Author_231} Theocritus, Idyll 15, line 61
{quote_232} Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.
{Author_232} Euripides, Meleager Frag. 523
{quote_233} And can you Romans, then, who have got such possessions and so many of them, covet our poor British huts?
{Author_233} Caratācos, Cassius Dio, Roman History Bk. LXI.33.3c
{quote_234} And when the book of Daniel was showed to him (Alexander the Great) wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks
{trans_234} should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended.
{Author_234} Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Book 11.8.5
{quote_235} Pulvis et umbra sumus.
{trans_235} We are dust and shadows.
{Author_235} Horace, Carmina.
{quote_236} Sed Caesar in omnia praeceps,nil actum credens, cum quid superesset agendum.
{trans_236} But Caesar, headlong in all his designs, thought nothing done while anything remained to do.
{Author_236} Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia, Book II, line 656
{quote_237} In se magna ruunt: laetis hunc numina rebus crescendi posuere modum.
{trans_237} Great things come crashing down upon themselves – such is the limit of growth ordained by heaven for success.
{Author_237} Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia, Book I, line 81
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: but this would be true of anyone who had conquered others who didn't wish to be conquered. You should hear what the people of my own country (Ireland) still say about the English.
) . this is the sacred invocation that the aquilifer of the mighty Tenth lagion pronounced when jumped off the boat, in front of the shores of Britain (dBG).
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