"If the campaign is in summer the general must show himself greedy for his share of the sun and the heat, and in winter for the cold and the frost, and in all labours for toil and fatigue. This will help to make him beloved of his followers."
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Authors from GreecePeople from AthensHistorians from GreeceMilitary leaders from GreecePeople of the Peloponnesian War
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Bk. 1, ch. 6; as translated by Henry Graham Dakyns in Cyropaedia (2004) p. 31.
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griechischer Schriftsteller und Politiker
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