ABSTRACT
IN this way, too, as Lucius Florus agrees, Minutius, the Roman, is said to have lost a great number of vigorous, warlike soldiers in the war with the Thracians.1 None the less the chance or accident which I am here dealing with clearly demonstrates the enormous assiduity, measures, and skill that must be used to guard a position at which all suffering, destruction, dis aster, slaughter, pillage, and every kind of mischief in war are seen to be aimed.
