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Chapter 9 -OF THE ARMS OF THE PARTHIANS

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e is any show of the danger being over; hence many disorders arise; for every one bustling and running to his arms just when he should go to charge, has his cuirass to buckle on when his compa

er of baggage and servants who cannot be from their masters, by r

boris corpora vix ar

ent of labour could

heir shoulders.

to war without defensive arms, or with su

apitum, raptus d

ings of the heads w

"-AEneid,

we only sought to defend ourselves, and are rather loaded than secured by it. We have enough to do to support its weight, being so manacled and immured, as if we were only to contend with our own arms, and as if we had not the same obligation to defend them, that they have to defend us. Tacitus gives a pleasant description of the men-at-arms among our ancient Gauls, who were so armed as only to be able to stand, without power to harm or to be harmed, or to rise again

him; saying, that those who assaulted should think of attacking, and not to fear; suspecting, with good reason, that this stop they had put to the enemies, would make themselves less vigilant upon their guard. He s

used to wear it that makes the we

sso haveano, et

guerrier, de'

d' appoi ch' en

aveano mai m

a portar co

he in uso l'h

, of whom I sing, had

eads their casque, and

hilst here they were

own as light to b

, Cant.,

infantry always carried not only a morion, a sword, and a shield (for as to arms, says Cicero, they we

mbra militis

ify their camp, sixty pounds in weight. And Marius' soldiers, laden at the same rate, were inured t

g that was drest. The jeer that was given a Lacedaemonian soldier is marvellously pat to this purpose, who, in an expedition of war, was reproached for having been seen under the roof of a house:

t our darts hitting upon them, would rebound" (these were the coats of mail our forefathers were so constantly wont to use). And in another place: "they had," says he, "strong and able horses, covered with thick tanned hides of leather, and were themselves armed 'cap-a-pie' with great plates of iron, so artificially ordered, that in all parts of the limbs, which required bending, they lent them

ctis animatur

su; credas si

toque viros s

quis: ferrata

vent, securi v

e placed over the bo

you would think the

rses are similarly ar

ron shoulders."-Clau

arch says, that Demetrius caused two complete suits of armour to be made for himself and for Alcimus, a captain of the gr

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Contents

Chapter 1 -OF THE INCONSTANCY OF OUR ACTIONS Chapter 2 -OF DRUNKENNESS Chapter 3 -A CUSTOM OF THE ISLE OF CEA Chapter 4 -TO-MORROW'S A NEW DAY Chapter 5 -OF CONSCIENCE Chapter 6 -USE MAKES PERFECT Chapter 7 -OF RECOMPENSES OF HONOUR Chapter 8 -OF THE AFFECTION OF FATHERS TO THEIR CHILDREN Chapter 9 -OF THE ARMS OF THE PARTHIANS Chapter 10 -OF BOOKS Chapter 11 -OF CRUELTY
Chapter 12 - APOLOGY FOR RAIMOND SEBOND.
Chapter 13 -OF JUDGING OF THE DEATH OF ANOTHER
Chapter 14 -THAT OUR MIND HINDERS ITSELF
Chapter 15 -THAT OUR DESIRES ARE AUGMENTED BY DIFFICULTY
Chapter 16 -OF GLORY
Chapter 17 -OF PRESUMPTION
Chapter 18 -OF GIVING THE LIE
Chapter 19 -OF LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE
Chapter 20 -THAT WE TASTE NOTHING PURE
Chapter 21 -AGAINST IDLENESS
Chapter 22 -OF POSTING
Chapter 23 -OF ILL MEANS EMPLOYED TO A GOOD END
Chapter 24 -OF THE ROMAN GRANDEUR
Chapter 25 -NOT TO COUNTERFEIT BEING SICK
Chapter 26 -OF THUMBS
Chapter 27 -COWARDICE THE MOTHER OF CRUELTY
Chapter 28 -ALL THINGS HAVE THEIR SEASON
Chapter 29 -OF VIRTUE
Chapter 30 -OF A MONSTROUS CHILD
Chapter 31 -OF ANGER
Chapter 32 -DEFENCE OF SENECA AND PLUTARCH
Chapter 33 -THE STORY OF SPURINA
Chapter 34 -OBSERVATION ON THE MEANS TO CARRY ON A WAR ACCORDING TO JULIUS CAESAR
Chapter 35 -OF THREE GOOD WOMEN
Chapter 36 -OF THE MOST EXCELLENT MEN
Chapter 37 -OF PROFIT AND HONESTY
Chapter 38 -OF REPENTANCE
Chapter 39 -OF THREE COMMERCES
Chapter 40 -OF DIVERSION
Chapter 41 -UPON SOME VERSES OF VIRGIL
Chapter 42 -OF COACHES
Chapter 43 -OF THE INCONVENIENCE OF GREATNESS
Chapter 44 -OF THE ART OF CONFERENCE
Chapter 45 -OF VANITY
Chapter 46 -OF MANAGING THE WILL
Chapter 47 -OF CRIPPLES
Chapter 48 -OF PHYSIOGNOMY
Chapter 49 -OF EXPERIENCE
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