Note 023

___Si bellica nubes Ingrueret, quamvis annis et jure minori,
Cedere grandaevos equitum peditumque magistros
Adspiceres.__
Claudian, Laus Seren. v. 196, etc.

A modern general would deem their submission either heroic patriotism or abject servility.

The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 29