THE SECOND OBSERVATION.
SEcondly, I observe the respect which Caesar had to the extraordinary labour of his souldi∣ers:* 1.1 fore whereas they were drawn out of their wintering-camps before winter was ended, and were carried unseasonably upon a service, he rewarded them with the booty and spoil of the enemy, contrary to the ordinary course of the Roman warfare, which reserved either all or the most part thereof for the publick Treasury, and left the souldier to his stipendary enter∣tainment. Which is a point very observable in the carriage of a war: wherein are required as well eminent and extraordinary attempts, as common and usuall duties, and in the judge∣ment of a wise Commander are thought wor∣thy their answerable rewards. At the siege of Gergovia, as it followeth in the seventh Com∣mentary, L. Fabius a Centurion told his companions, that the booty and pillage which he had got at the taking of Avaricum would not suffer any man to get up upon the wall be∣fore himself. And so for the most part it falleth out, that honourable attempts being honoura∣bly rewarded, do as seed sown in good ground, multiply the increase of like vertuous actions. And this was one principall means which he used to give courage and valour to his souldiers; as when he went to get Spain from Pompey and that faction,* 1.2 he borrowed mony of the Tribunes & Centurions, & gave it in largess to the souldi∣ers, whereby he gained (as he saith) two advanta∣ges, quod pignore animos Centurionum de∣vinxit, & largitione redemit militum vo∣luntates, for he engaged the Centurions to him whilst he had this pledge from them, and by his largesse purchased the good will of the soul∣diers.