[6]
And if I were not to admit, that those actions are so great that scarcely any
man's mind or comprehension is capable of doing justice to them, I should be
very senseless. But there are other actions greater than those. For some
people are in the habit of disparaging military glory, and of denying the
whole of it to the generals, and of giving the multitude a share of it also,
so that it may not be the peculiar property of the commanders. And, no doubt
in the affairs of war, the valour of the troops, the advantages of
situation, the assistance of allies, fleets, and supplies, have great
influence; and a most important share in all such transactions, Fortune
claims for herself, as of her right; and whatever has been done successfully
she considers almost entirely as her own work.
This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.