The Art of War - Khamkoo

from other desires he longs for his punishment, if he himself is the executioner,
than if the execution is carried out by another. If you want,
therefore, that one is not to be favored in his mistakes by a people, a
good remedy is to see to it that the public judged him. In support of this,
the example of Manlius Capitol that can be cited, who, when he was accused
by the Senate, was defended so much by the public up to the point
where it no longer became the judge: but having become arbiter of his
cause, condemned him to death. It is, therefore, a method of punishing
this, of doing away with tumults, and of having justice observed. And
since in restraining armed men, the fear of laws, or of men, is not
enough, the ancients added the authority of God: and, therefore, with
very great ceremony, they made their soldiers swear to observe the military
discipline, so that if they did the contrary, they not only had to fear
the laws and men, but God; and they used every industry to fill them
with Religion.
BATTISTA
Did the Romans permit women to be in their armies, or that they indulge
in indolent games that are used to day?
FABRIZIO
They prohibited both of them, and this prohibition was not very difficult,
because the exercises which they gave each day to the soldiers were
so many, sometimes being occupied all together, sometimes individually,
that no time was left to them to think either of Venery, or of games,
or of other things which make soldiers seditious and useless.
BATTISTA
I like that. But tell me, when the army had to take off, what arrangements
did they have?
FABRIZIO
The captain's trumpet was sounded three times: at the first sound the
tents were taken down and piled into heaps, at the second they loaded
the burdens, and at the third they moved in the manner mentioned
above, with the impedimenta behind, the armed men on every side, placing
the Legions in the center. And, therefore, you would have to have a
battalion of auxiliaries move, and behind it its particular impedimenta,
and with those the fourth part of the public impedimenta, which would
be all those who should be quartered in one of those (sections of the
camp) which we showed a short while back. And, therefore, it would be
well to have each one of them assigned to a battalion, so that when the
army moved, everyone would know where his place was in marching.
And every battalion ought to proceed on its way in this fashion with its
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