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 STRATAGEMS, IV. i. 4-8

quence of fear, and not to leave the ranks except to seek a weapon, strike a foe, or save a comrade.^

Scipio Africanus, noticing the shield of a certain soldier rather elaborately decorated, said he didn't wonder the man had adorned it with such care, seeing that he put more trust in it than in his sword. ^

When Philip was organizing his first army, he forbade anyone to use a carriage. The cavalrymen he permitted to have but one attendant apiece. In the infantry he allowed for every ten men only one servant, who was detailed to carry the mills and ropes. ^ When the troops marched out to summer quarters, he commanded each man to carry on his shoulders flour for thirty days.

For the purpose of limiting the number of pack animals, by which the march of the army was especially hampered, Gaius Marius had his soldiers fasten their utensils and food up in bundles and hang these on forked poles, to make the burden easy and to facilitate rest ; whence the expression " Marius's mules." ^

When Theagenes, the Athenian, was leading his troops towards Megara and his men inquired as to their place in the ranks, he told them he would assign them their places when they arrived at their destination. Then he secretly sent the cavalry ahead and commanded them, in the guise of enemies, to turn back and attack their comrades. When this plan was carried out and the men whom he had with him made preparations for an encounter with the foe, he permitted the battle-line to be drawn up in

^ The mills were for griudiug corn. The allusion to the ropes is not clear.


 * Of. Fest. Paul. 24, 2 ; 148, 6.

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