On the record44 BC
But to mix rashly in the fray and to fight hand to hand with the enemy is but a barbarous and brutish kind of business.
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Cicero
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gutenberg.orgCicero: “But to mix rashly in the fray and to fight hand to hand with the enemy is but a barbarous and brutish kind of business.”
Editor's note · Context
Cicero, discussing different forms of courage, dismisses reckless, close-quarters combat as a primitive and uncivilized endeavor.
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