CAESAR BELLATOR

Book VII Aphorism 30

Imbroglio at Gergovia: Caesar Disciplines His Over-Eager Legionaries

“Good initiative, bad judgement.”
— USMC Counselling Proverb

“From his soldiers he needed discipline and self-control as much as courage and greatness of spirit.”
— Caesar

            When it comes to the morale of one’s men there can be two problems: on the one hand they can be cowardly an…