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Often appears with: supply, logistics, and encampment · rallying soldiers · horse as omen · fate, destiny, and necessity · battle tactics · battle and tactics
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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…