05-13-2007, 01:03 AM
p.s. - the pollux reference isn't "new" at all, as Ruben pointed out. I first came across it in J.K. Anderson's "Military theory & practice in the age of Xenophon", in 1970 !
regards,
Paullus Scipio/Paul McDonnell-Staff
regards,
Paullus Scipio/Paul McDonnell-Staff
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff