duriora genti corpora, stricti artus, minax vultus et maior animi vigor, multum, ut inter Germanos, rationis ac sollertiae: praeponere electos, audire praepositos, nosse ordines, intellegere occasiones, differre impetus, disponere diem, vallare noctem, fortunam inter dubia, virtutem inter certa numerare, quodque rarissimum nec nisi Romanae disciplinae concessum, plus reponere in duce quam in exercitu.
This tribe has hardier bodies than the others, close-knit limbs, a forbidding expression, and more strength of intellect: there is much method in what they do, for Germans at least, and much shrewdness. They promote to office men of their own choice, and listen to the men so promoted; know their place in the ranks and recognise opportunities; reserve their attack; plan out their day; entrench at night; distrust luck, but rely on courage; and'the rarest thing of all, which only Roman discipline has been permitted to attain'depend on the initiative of the general rather than on that of the soldier.
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