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