Bear in mind that the three virtues of a good soldier are zeal, sense of honour, and obedience to his leaders.
νομίσατε <τρία> εἶναι τοῦ καλῶς πολεμεῖν, τὸ ἐθέλειν καὶ τὸ αἰσχύνεσθαι καὶ <τὸ> τοῖς ἄρχουσι πείθεσθαι.
τρία add. Schol. et Stobaeus
τὸ add. Stahl
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Wednesday, September 07, 2022
A Good Soldier
Thucydides 5.9.9 (speech of the Spartan general Brasidas before the Battle of Amphipolis; tr. Charles Forster Smith):