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Excerpt from Balthazaris Ayalæ De Jure Et Officiis Bellicis Et Disciplina Militari Libri III
And so, Most Serene Prince, I feel assured that this work of mine, such as it is, will not be displeasing to your Highness. The offering is, of a truth, a poor one and unworthy of your splendor, but (unless I err) it is opportune to the present crisis; and I would that, in appraising my work, my perhaps overexacting and severe critics may bear in mind What Quintus Fabius Maxi mus said to his son, Quintus Fabius Maximus the consul, namely, that the same standard ought not to be applied in the midst of the heat of war as in the tranquillity of peace, for much that in quiet times is visited with correction and punishment is pardonable in times of mobs and the sword.
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