Plutarch on War
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“Sylla proceeded by persuasion, not by arms.”
“He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.”
“Paulus Aemilius, on taking command of the forces in Macedonia, and finding them talkative and impertinently busy, as though they were all commanders, issued out his orders that they should have only ready hands and keen swords, and leave the rest to him.”