Clichés about disciplining

[Jona Lendering]

Fronto says this regarding Lucius Verus in his Parthian war.

This great decay in military discipline Lucius took in hand as the case demanded, setting up his own energy in the service as a pattern…

Fronto, Ambr. 257+ (Preamble to History, p. 209 in Loeb)

That's a good one.

There is a whole book full of such anecdotes:

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So off to the library I go!