Army may be reduced to Order and Discipline, by Exercise, Severity, and Example; without which three, it is impossible it should be reformed, at least long con∣tinue so, as Vitellius experimentally found trueDegenerabat à labore ac virtute miles, assuetudine voluptatum & conviviorum. Tac. l. 2. Hist.. Corbulo was sensible of the same, when he was sent into Germany, and therefore reduced those slothful, disorderly Legions to their ancient Discipline. The same he did afterwards with his Army in SyriaLegiones operum & laboris ignar, popultionibus laetantes, veterem ad morem reduxit. Tac. l. 11. Annal., where he found Soldiers so ignorant in the Affairs of War, that there were many, even Veterans, who had never kept Guard, or stood Centinel, who were utter Strangers to Trenches and Fortifications, unarmed, but rich and magnificent, as having served all their time in good Gar∣risons Veterani qui non stationem non vigilias inissent, vallum, fossamque quasi nova & mira viserent, sine galeis, sine loricis, nitidi, & quaestuo, militi per oppida expietâ. Tac. l. 13. Annal.; and cashiering such as were unserviceable, kept the rest encamped all the Winter, to inure them to Cold, himself in a thin Habit, and his Head uncovered, always attending them, whether on a March or in their Works, commending the Valiant, comforting the Weak, and giving Example to allpse cultu levi, capite intecto, in agmine, in laboribus frequens adesse; laudem strenu, solatium invalidis, exemplum omnibus otendere. Ibid.; and when he perceiv'd the Inclemency of the Weather made many leave their Colours, he remedy'd that by Severity, not pardoning (as was usual in other Armies) the first and second Transgression of that nature, but whoever Deserted was immediately put to Death. And that was found to be of more use than Clemency; for fewer deserted his Camp, than did those where it was pardonedRemediu severitate quaeium est. Nec enim ut in aliis exercitibus, primum alterumqu venia prosequebatur, sed qui signa reliqerat, satim capite poenas luebat. Idque usu salubre, & misericordia melius apparuit. Quippe pauciores castr deserure, quam ea in quibus ignoscebatur. Ibid.. The Soldier could never be brought to undergo those great Fatigues, and expose himself to the present Hazards of 0