En ᾦ kairῷ if the number was correct, marked, range toward epanorthosin Of the lives of men syntelesthenta. And the gar diapistein tῇ tychῃ and even by reason efpragias, enargestaton seemed pasin then through the symptom Mark. For he mikrῷ formerly Dido My mercy nor forgiveness per ptaiousin παρὰ πόδας αὐτὸς ἤγετο δεησόμενος τούτων περὶ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ σωτηρίας. Καὶ μὴν τὸ παρ' Εὐριπίδῃ πάλαι καλῶς εἰρῆσθαι δοκοῦν, ὡς ἓν σοφὸν βούλευμα τὰς πολλὰς χεῖρας νικᾷ, τότε δι' αὐτῶν τῶν ἔργων ἔλαβε τὴν πίστιν. Εἷς γὰρ ἄνθρωπος καὶ μία γνώμη τὰ μὲν ἀήττητα πλήθη καὶ πραγματικὰς δοκοῦντ' εἶναι καθεῖλεν, τὸ δὲ προφανῶς πεπτωκὸς ἄρδην πολίτευμα καῖ τὰς ἀπηλγηνκυίας ψυχὰς τῶν δυνάμεων ἐπὶ τὸ κρεῖττον ἤγαγεν.
And on this occasion you may find, in hindsight, many useful facts to improve the lives of men. It was then that the distrust of fate, above all when have achieved success, proved very useful, thanks to the events of Mark [Atilio Regulus]. Not long before he had shown no mercy or forgiveness for the losers, he found himself to be forced to ask their feet that were spared. On that occasion turned out to be true to the ancient and well-known maximum of Euripides, that it only takes one wise counsel to win many arms. In fact, by itself, the idea of \u200b\u200bone man [Xanthippus] on the one hand he managed to destroy a body of men who seemed invincible and unconquerable, on the other lifted to the highest levels of an army absolutely devastated and discouraged the hearts of his soldiers.
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