way or other to displays of craft; (8) which
things being so, a man had better either not attempt to exercise
command, or, as part and parcel of his general equipment, let him pray
to Heaven to enable him to exercise this faculty and be at pains himself
to cultivate his own inventiveness.

(6) Cf. "Cyrop." IV. ii. 26; VII. i. 18.

(7) {posinda}, lit. "How many?" (i.e. dice, nuts, marbles, etc.); cf.
the old game, "Buck! buck! how many horns do I hold up?" Schneid.
cf. Aristot. "Rhet."iii. 5. 4.

(8) "Have been won in connection with craft." See "Cyrop." I. vi. 32;
"Mem." III. i. 6; IV. ii. 15.

A general, who has access to the sea, may exercise the faculty as
follows: he may either, whilst apparently engaged in fitting out his
vessels, strike a blow on land; (9) or with a make-believe of some
aggressive design by land, hazard an adventure by sea. (10)

(9) A ruse adopted by Jason, 371 B.C. Cf. "Hell." VI. iv. 21.

(10) Cf. the tactics of the Athenians at Catana, 415 B.C. Thuc. vi.
64.

I consider it to be the duty of the cavalry commander to point out
clearly to the state authority the essential weakness of a force of
cavalry unaided by light infantry, as opposed to cavalry with
foot-soldiers attached. (11) It is duty also, having got his footmen, to
turn the force to good account. It is possible to conceal them
effectively, not only between the lines, but in rear also of the
troopers--the mounted soldier towering high above his follower on foot.

(11) Or, "divorced from infantry." In reference to {amippoi}, cf.
Thuc. v. 57; "Hell." VII. v. 23.

With regard to these devices and to any others which invention may
suggest towards capturing the foeman by force or fraud, I have one
common word of advice to add, which is, to act with God, and then
while Heaven propitious smiles, fortune will scarcely dare to
frown. (12)

(12) Or, "and then by the grace of Heaven you may win the smiles of
fortune," reading with Courier, etc., {ina kai e tukhe sunepaine}.
Cf. "Cyrop." III. iii. 20.

At times there is no more effective fraud than a make-believe (13) of
over-caution alien to the spirit of adventure. This itself will put
the enemy off his guard and ten to one will lure him into some
egregious blunder; or conversely, once get a reputation for
foolhardiness established, and then with folded hands sit feigning
future action, and see what a world of trouble you will thereby cause
you