_“To employ in warfare an uninstructed people is to destroy the
nation.”--Chinese Saying._
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Antiochus, King of Syria, reviewing his immense but untrained and
undisciplined army at Ephesus, asked of Hannibal, “if they were
not enough for the Romans.”
“Yes,” replied the great Carthagenian, “enough to glut the
bloodthirstiness, even of the Romans.”
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_“A man in the vigor of life and capable of sustaining the
heaviest fatigues, but untrained in warfare, is fitted not to
bear arms, but to bear baggage.”--Timoleon._