It is the cause which shatters or exalts the soldier’s strength; if there be no just cause behind him, shame dashes the weapons from his hands.
[Frangit et attollit uires in milite causa;
quae nisi iusta subest, excutit arma pudor.]
Propertius (50–16 BC) Roman elegiac poet [Sextus Propertius]
Elegies, Book 4, Elegy 6, l. 51ff (4.6.51–52) [tr. Phillimore (1906)]
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