Tuesday, January 20, 2015
How to Ensure Punctual Attendance at Staff Meetings
Caesar, Gallic War 5.56 (tr. H.J. Edwards):
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This in the practice of the Gauls marks the beginning of a war; and by a general law all grown men are accustomed to assemble at it in arms, while the one who comes last to the assembly is put to death with every kind of torture in sight of the host.
Hoc more Gallorum est initium belli, quo lege communi omnes puberes armati convenire consuerunt; qui ex eis novissimus convenit, in conspectu multitudinis omnibus cruciatibus affectus necatur.
