With these we shall smite the enemy before us, and need have no fear that we shall miss the mark.

[17] How can we differ from one another with these arms?
There can be no difference except in daring.

And daring you may foster in your hearts as much as we in ours.

What greater right have we than you to love victory and follow after her, victory who wins for us and preserves to us all things that are beautiful and good?
Why should you, any more than we, be found lacking in that power which takes the goods of weaklings and bestows them on the strong ?" [18] He ended: "Now you have heard all.

There lie your weapons; let him who chooses take them up and write his name with the brigadier in the same roll as ours.