Kitap fragments
49
Having urged the soldiers to make haste, and exhorted the tribunes to engage.
50
Thinking it better and safer not to be present at the hour of the enemy’s opportunity, nor when they were under the influence of popular excitement and fury.
51
Whenever it is possible to obtain satisfaction from those who have wronged us either by law or by any other settled forms of justice.
52a
Having drawn his army from the pass he encamped.
52b
And then they took up some sort of order, as though by mutual consent, and fought the battle in regular formation.
53
That which causes the most pain at the time involves also the most signal revulsion of joy.
54
Having ordered the pilots to steer the ships as fast as they could to Elaea.
55a
They not only drove themselves off the stage, but ruined also all Greece.
55b
But he, from his long experience of war, did not all lose his presence of mind.
56
He persuades them by reckoning all the wealth he considered they would gain in the battle.
57a
The Romans had been inspired by some divine influence, and having fortified their courage with irresistible might . . .
57b
To signalise some by favours, and others by punishments, that they might be a warning to the rest.
58
And they, being persuaded, and throwing themselves in the way of the enemy’s charge, died gallantly.
59
He tried to take the city by an intrigue, having long secured a party of traitors within it.
60
He brought up the transports, by lading which with rocks and sinking them at the mouth of the harbour he planned to shut out the enemy entirely from the sea.
61
Though I have much more to say, I fear lest some of you may think that I am unnecessarily diffuse.
62
They are reserving themselves for an opportunity, and are quite ready to meet them again.
63
To be eager for life and to cling to it is a sign of the greatest baseness and weakness.
64
He was feeling something like starters in horse races, which are started by the raising of torches.
65a
Their boldness transgresses the bounds of propriety, and their actions are a violation of duty.
