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Often appears with: supply, logistics, and encampment · catiline’s speech to troops · battle preparations · battle and tactics · avoiding rout
Usually: speech or oration (1) · crisis of belief (1) · exhortation (1)
“Attack them, therefore, with so much the greater confidence, and call to mind your achievements of old.” Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus), Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War · precept
“In battle, those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to a rampart.” Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus), Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War · insight
Catiline addresses his soldiers, arguing courage must come from within, describing their dire shortages and double enemy armies, promising safety if they win, and warning that flight leads to slaughter, then orders battle readiness.
contend for what but little concerns them,[288] the power of a small party. Attack them, therefore, with so much the greater confidence, and call to mind your achievements of old. We might,[289] with the utmost ignominy, have passed the rest of our days in exile. Some of you, after losing your property, might have waited at Rome for assistance from others. But because such a life, to men of spirit, was disgusting an…