[lit-ideas] De Legibus Martialis
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"Nothing like the ethics of a marine"
graffito in West Point.
From Frontinus, Stratagems, Loeb, p. 283
Book I, ch. I; De disciplina:
"Manlius,"
Manlius
"to whom the name, 'The Masterful' was afterwards given"
cui Imperioso fuit postea cognomen
"had his own son scourged"
filium
"and beheaded in the sight of the army"
in conspectu exercitus virgis caesum securi percussit.
"because, even though he came out victorious,
quamvis victorem
"he had engaged in battle with the enemy"
cum hoste pugaverant
"contrary to the orders of his father"
quod in contra edictum patris
J. L. Speranza
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