But it is not of death I am afraid; be it death on the field of battle, or death at the hands of the executioner, should I fall into the power of my enemies, I fear myself.
"You ask me to explain ?" went on the general, without pausing for a question.

"Hearken! I am a man, you are a man, our enemies are men.

I have slain a hundred thousand men in Gaul.

Cruel?
No, for had they lived the great designs which the deity wills to accomplish in that country could not be executed! But then my mind was at rest.

I said, 'Let these men die,' and no Nemesis has required their blood at my hands.