 | Publius Cornelius Tacitus - 1868 - 180 páginas
...ascribe one's own brave deeds to his renown, is the height of loyalty. The chief fights for victory; his vassals fight for their chief. If their native...maintain a numerous following except by violence and war. Indeed, men look to the liberality of their chief for their war-horse and their blood-stained and victorious... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1877 - 276 páginas
...ascribe one's own brave deeds to his renown, is the height of loyalty. The chief fights for victory ; his vassals fight for their chief. If their native...those tribes which are waging some war. both because 98 CHAP, inaction is odious to their race., and because they XIV win renown more readily in the midst... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1877 - 234 páginas
...youths voluntarily seek those tribes which are waging some war. both because H A ?8 CHAP; XIV. CHAP. XV. inaction is odious to their race, and because they...maintain a numerous following except by violence and war. Indeed, men look to the liberality of their chief for their war-horse and their bloodstained and victorious... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 630 páginas
...ascribe one's own brave deeds to his renown, is the height of loyalty. The chief fights for victory; his vassals fight for their chief. If their native...maintain a numerous following except by violence and war. Indeed, men look to the liberality of their chief for their war-horse and their blood-stained and victorious... | |
 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1900 - 538 páginas
...ascribe one's own brave deeds to his renown, is the height of loyalty. The chief fights for victory ; his vassals fight for their chief. If their native...maintain a numerous following except by violence and war. Indeed, men look to the liberality of their chief for their war-horse and their blood-stained and victorious... | |
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... a disgrace for his followers not to equal the valour of the chief. And it is an infamy and a reproach for life to have survived the chief, and returned from the field. To defend, to protect him, to ascribe one's own brave deeds to his renown, is the... 