{"id":11351,"date":"2013-07-09T21:50:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T20:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=11351"},"modified":"2013-07-09T21:50:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T20:50:02","slug":"a-saying-from-polyaenus-strategems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2013\/07\/09\/a-saying-from-polyaenus-strategems\/","title":{"rendered":"A saying from Polyaenus&#8217; Strategems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve been looking at the <em>Strategems<\/em> of Polyaenus.\u00a0 These exist in eight books, dedicated to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.\u00a0 In book 8 I find the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">30.\u00a0 After Caesar had seen all his enemies subdued, he empowered every one of his soldiers to save the life of any Roman he pleased.\u00a0 By this act of beneficence and humanity he ingratiated himself with his soldiers, and restored her exiled citizens to Rome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">31.\u00a0 The statues of Pompey and Sulla, which had been demolished by their enemies, Caesar ordered to be replaced: an act of moderation which gained him much esteem.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These strategems reflect well the mind of C. Julius Caesar, who knew how to bind men to him.\u00a0 Cicero records such political mildness, together with the ruthlessness that lay underneath it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The translation that I found dates from 1793.\u00a0 Is it really the case that no translation has been made since?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mind you&#8230; I have yet to discover any edition of the <em>Tactica<\/em> of Aelian from later than 1855!\u00a0 There must be one &#8230; mustn&#8217;t there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been looking at the Strategems of Polyaenus.\u00a0 These exist in eight books, dedicated to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.\u00a0 In book 8 I find the following: 30.\u00a0 After Caesar had seen all his enemies subdued, he empowered every one of his soldiers to save the life of any Roman he pleased.\u00a0 By this act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[1358],"class_list":["post-11351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-polyaenus"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}