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1 1| more widely known by the ancients than are those commonly
2 1| to seek to imitate the ancients in the strong and rugged
3 1| more wisely imitated the ancients in rugged things than in
4 1| presently leaves the ways of the ancients, and in imitating antiquity,
5 1| those things similar to the ancients that you would introduce?~
6 1| are not imitators of the ancients, thinking that in this way
7 1| those who do not imitate the ancients in their actions, on the
8 1| ours, but like those of the ancients, who created horsemen (cavalry)
9 1| Draft) of them, as thus the ancients called it, and which we
10 1| therefore, what methods of those ancients can now be introduced in
11 1| selection) was done by the ancients from among the more wealthy,
12 2| to examine what arms the ancients used, and from them select
13 2| you, ours or that of the ancients?~FABRIZIO: I believe in
14 2| stirrups not used by the ancients, one stays more securely
15 2| you not wonder that those ancients should think of these minute
16 2| taught it to you. Nor did the ancients esteem it a more fortunate
17 2| has been taught to do. The ancients, therefore, wanted their
18 2| I would also do as the ancients and train those who fight
19 2| exercises, it resulted that the ancients had good infantry, and that
20 2| infantry than ours, for the ancients exercised either at home
21 2| office of those whom the ancients called Tergiduttori (Rear-leaders):
22 2| needed, and in which the ancients placed much emphasis. It
23 2| recognized. To which the ancients paid very much attention,
24 2| any military use. But the ancients served themselves of it
25 2| orders easily. Whence the ancients having whistles (pipes),
26 3| having lost the method the ancients employed of receiving one
27 3| of Tergiduttore, as the ancients called the one placed in
28 3| to give you some from the ancients, I will do so. Ventidius,
29 3| arms and the systems of the ancients to be useless, and it appears
30 3| to use the methods of the ancients, and demonstrate the ancient
31 3| cannot be resisted, as the ancients did to the elephants and
32 3| what sounds (calls) the ancients used. According as Thucydides
33 4| according to the examples of the ancients, that almost all the excellent
34 5| in accordance with the ancients, to bring it into a square,
35 5| wine and baked bread. The ancients did not think of wine, for
36 5| govern myself entirely as the ancients. If you would consider this
37 5| would like to know how the ancients governed themselves in these
38 5| thing well considered by the ancients, was the pay they gave to
39 6| impedimenta ((as you know)) the ancients intended all those carriages (
40 6| find in connection with the ancients guarding the camp at night,
41 6| men, is not enough, the ancients added the authority of God:
42 6| exercise: and therefore the ancients made them exercise every
43 6| consumed: therefore the ancients arranged that what was given
44 6| orderly and sober as the ancients, but licentious and drunkards.~
45 6| occur, the orders of the ancients should be imitated. When,
46 6| said I did not find the ancients had kept a night Watch outside,
47 6| which some examples of the ancients teach you. Pompey, when
48 6| quarters in the winter, as the ancients did.~FABRIZIO: Here, if
49 6| tell you again that the ancients did everything better and
50 7| also been found which the ancients called “cataracts”, which,
51 7| respect to those of the ancients, are extinct; but in Italy,
52 7| equipment with which the ancients defended the towns were
53 7| leisure and safety. The ancients often occupied towns with
54 7| and in how many ways the ancients organized their ranks, how
55 7| to the perfection of the ancients. And the Swiss have been
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