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Often appears with: battle and tactics · conquest, plunder, and captives · military discipline and training · venus genitrix · tisaphernes executed · supply, logistics, and encampment · strategy and the aims of war · spaniards and carthaginians · shield-and-elbow pushing · self-sacrifice · roman vs carthaginian morale · rallying soldiers
Usually: narrative (4) · sudden reversal of fortune (2) · argument (1) · the test or trial (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1) · indignation (1) · wonder (1)
“Agesilaus's answer was, that the making of peace belonged to the Lacedaemonians, not to him; as for wealth, he had rather see it in his soldiers' hands than his own; that the Grecians thought it not honorable to enrich themselves with the bribes of their enemies, but with their spoils only.” Plutarch, Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans · precept
A major battle at a point along the Iberus ends with Romans defeating Hasdrubal’s forces through coordination and center pressure, destroying hopes of Hasdrubal joining Hannibal in Italy.
ought to send a general with a powerful army to succeed him. To whom, however prosperous all things might prove, yet the province would not be a position of ease." 28. Though this letter made at first a great impression on the senate, yet, as their interest in Italy was first and most important, they did not at all alter their resolution in relation to Hasdrubal and his troops. However, they despatched Himilco with …
During the battle, Roman uniform shouts and heavy pushing drive back Carthaginian infantry; Carthage’s second line fails to support the first, causing auxiliaries to flee or fight their own side.
put to flight even the cavalry of the Carthaginians posted in their right wing. Laelius, when he saw the enemy in disorder, struck additional terror into them in their confusion. 34. The Carthaginian line was deprived of the cavalry on both sides, when the infantry, who were now not a match for the Romans in confidence or strength, engaged. In addition to this there was one circumstance, trifling in itself, but at t…
As Agesilaus invades Lydia and pursues Tisaphernes, he mixes light-armed foot with cavalry to rout enemies and take camp; Persia’s king executes Tisaphernes, offers money, and Agesilaus relocates to Phrygia while accepting only expense funding.
scorned as unserviceable. Agesilaus, who stood by at the auction, told his Greeks, "These are the men against whom ye fight, and these the things you will gain by it." The season of the year being come, he boldly gave out that he would invade Lydia; and this plaindealing of his was now mistaken for a stratagem by Tisaphernes, who, by not believing Agesilaus, having been already deceived by him, overreached himself. …
Comparing Roman battles, Machiavelli says the consul Fabius wins by holding back and attacking later, while Decius attacks furiously first and loses, saving himself only through self-sacrifice.
Enemy’s attack, or to anticipate it by an impetuous onset._ Decius and Fabius, the Roman consuls, were each of them in command of a separate army, one directed against the Samnites, the other against the Etruscans: and as both delivered battle, we have to pronounce, in respect of the two engagements, which commander followed the better method. Decius attacked his enemy at once with the utmost fury and with his whole…
Caesar is portrayed as relentless and ingenious in battle tactics, including using horse logistics to prevent flight, relying on a specially bred horse with an omen, and personally rallying troops under attack.
cut off, in imitation of that memorable instance of resolution in Cynaegirus amongst the Greeks, boarded the enemy's ship, bearing down all before him with the boss of his shield. LXIX. They never once mutinied during all the ten years of the Gallic war, but were sometimes refractory in the course of the civil war. However, they always returned quickly to their duty, and that not through the indulgence, but in subm…