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 STRATAGEMS, IV. vii. 15-20

cei'tain persons urged him to pursue the enemy to annihilation, he answered : " Let some survive to carry to the enemy the tidings of our victory ! " ^

Scipio Africanus used to say that a road not only ought to be afforded the enemy for flight, but that it ought even to be paved. ^

Paches, the Athenian, on one occasion declared that the enemy would be sj)ared, if they put aside the steel. When they had all complied with these terms, he ordered the entire number to be executed, since they had steel brooches on their cloaks.^

When Hasdrubal had invaded the territory of the Numidians for the purpose of subduing them, and they were preparing to resist, he declared that he h.ad come to capture elephants, an animal in which umidia abounds. For this privilege they demanded monev, and Hasdrubal promised to pay it. Having by these representations thrown them off the scent, he attacked them and brought them under his power.

Alcetas, the Spartan, in order the more easily to make a surprise attack on a supply convoy of the Thebans, got ready his ships in a secret place, and exercised his rowers by turns on a single galley, as though that was all he had. Then at a certain time, as the Theban vessels were sailing past, he sent all his ships against them and captured their supplies.*

When Ptolemy with a weak force was contending against Perdiccas's powerful army, he arranged for a few horsemen to drive along animals of all sorts, with brush fastened to their backs for them to trail behind them. He himself went ahead with the forces which he had. As a consequence, the dust

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