t the same time that they so cry out, they lift up their
right hands also.

5. When, after this, they are gone out of their camp,
they all march without noise, and in a decent manner, and every one
keeps his own rank, as if they were going to war. The footmen are armed
with breastplates and head-pieces, and have swords on each side; but the
sword which is upon their left side is much longer than the other, for
that on the right side is not longer than a span. Those foot-men also
that are chosen out from the rest to be about the general himself have a
lance and a buckler, but the rest of the foot soldiers have a spear and
a long buckler, besides a saw and a basket, a pick-axe and an axe, a
thong of leather and a hook, with provisions for three days, so that a
footman hath no great need of a mule to carry his burdens. The horsemen
have a long sword on their right sides, axed a long pole in their hand;
a shield also lies by them obliquely on one side of their horses, with
three or more darts that are borne in their quiver, having broad
points, and not smaller than spears. They have also head-pieces and
breastplates, in like manner as have all the footmen. And for those that
are chosen to be about the general, their armor no way differs from
that of the horsemen belonging to other troops; and he always leads the
legions forth to whom the lot assigns that employment.

6. This is the manner of the marching and resting of the Romans, as also
these are the several sorts of weapons they use. But when they are to
fight, they leave nothing without forecast, nor to be done off-hand, but
counsel is ever first taken before any work is begun, and what hath been
there resolved upon is put in execution presently; for which reason they
seldom commit any errors; and if they have been mistaken at any time,
they easily correct those mistakes. They also esteem any errors they
commit upon taking counsel beforehand to be better than such rash
success as is owing to fortune only; because such a fortuitous advantage
tempts them to be inconsiderate, while consultation, though it may
sometimes fail of success, hath this good in it, that it makes men more
careful hereafter; but for the advantages that arise from chance,
they are not owing to him that gains them; and as to what melancholy
accidents happen unexpectedly, there is this comfort in them, that they
had however taken the best consultations they could to prevent them.

7. Now they so mana