Aphorismes ciuill and militarie amplified with authorities, and exemplified with historie, out of the first quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine.
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Aphorismes ciuill and militarie amplified with authorities, and exemplified with historie, out of the first quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine.
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Dallington, Robert, 1561-1637.
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London :: Imprinted [by R. Field] for Edward Blount,
1613.
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Aphorisms and apothegms -- Early works to 1800.
Political science -- Early works to 1800.
Military art and science -- Early works to 1800.
Italy -- History -- Early works to 1800.
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"Aphorismes ciuill and militarie amplified with authorities, and exemplified with historie, out of the first quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19768.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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APHORISME XI.
IN moralitie, it is a greater vice to commit a wic∣kednesse, then to omit the doing of a vertuous act: So in martiall gouernment, it is worse for the soul∣dier to do what he is forbidden in his owne campe, then not to do what he is commanded vpon the ene∣mie: For this onely bereaues him of some faire ad∣uantage; but that laies himselfe open to all ambush and defeat.
After the Pisans victory at S. Regolo, their souldiers together with the Venetian Estradiots range at pleasure vp and down the countrie, in great troupes, and greater carelesnesse and disorder: I hey conforme not themselues to discipline, nor commaund of their Captaines. Paul Vitelli Generall of the Florentine forces espies the aduantage: lies in ambush neare Casina: sets suddenly vpon the Venetians, led by Marco Martinengo: puts them to flight, and kils many of the Estradiors, with Iohn Gradenigo Leader of their men at armes. He takes prisoner Franco a commander of the Estradiots, and a hundred horse besides.
Notes
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Velle, vereri, obedire, boni militis munia.
Ne locum deserant, ne ordines turbent milites.
Ne vltrà quàm expedit, aut conglobent agmen, aut laxent.
Custodiendi milites intra limites, aliter soluitur militia tua, immò perit.
Omnibus imperij neruis, ad reuocandam pristinae disciplinam militiae, debes in∣niti.
Remedium seueritate quaesitum est, id{que} vsu salubre & misericordia melius ap∣paruit: quippe pauciores illa castra deseruere, quàm ea in quibus ignoscebatur.
Sic Pactium primipilum, tenere se munimentis & maiores copias operiri ius∣sum, rupto imperio pugnantem; Corbulo increpitum Pactium, & praefectos, mili∣tes{que}tendere omnes extra vallum iussit; Nec nisi precibus vniuersi exercitus ex∣soluti sunt.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. i. Periculum subire instructo ordine.