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The Roman military secret is not numbers but the enemy’s fear that every Roman youth can become a self-sacrificing assassin.
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The Roman military secret is not numbers but the enemy’s fear that every Roman youth can become a self-sacrificing assassin.
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"I am one of hundreds of young Roman men who have sworn to come and kill you. One of us will succeed. I fail..."
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"Musius. As an enemy, I wish to kill an enemy, and I have as much courage to meet death as I had to inflict..."
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"Look, Musius cried, and learned how lightly those regard their bodies who have some great glory in view. Then he plunged his rod with..."
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"hundred of us, the foremost amongst the Roman youth, have sworn to attack you in this way. The lot fell to me first. The..."
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"...preconcert, the preconcerted signal was given in the Roman state. The Roman youth dashed in all directions to carry off the maidens who were..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Roman lecture: Rome begins as a poor borderland war machine, invents a liberty of obedience, uses Greek historians and Augustan poets to launder violence, and reaches its deepest secret...
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