many for
an
ambassage
and too
few for a
fight. But
before the
sun set,
he found
them
enough to
give him
the chase
with
infinite
slaughter.
Many are
the
examples
of the
great odds
between
number and
courage:
so that a
man may
truly make
a
judgement,
that the
principal
point of
greatness
in any
state is
to have a
race of
military
men.
Neither is
money the
sinews of
war (as it
is
trivially
said),
where the
sinews of
men’s
arms, in
