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Et ea insecuta sunt reipublicae tempora, quae sileri Agricolam non sinerent: tot exercitus in Moesia Daciaque et Germania Pannoniaque, temeritate aut per ignaviam ducum amissi: tot militares viri cum tot cohortibus expugnati et capti: nec jam de limite imperii et ripa, sed de hibernis legionum et possessione dubitatum.
Supply, as a predicate, causa periculi; these were the causes that put A's life in jeopardy. Militares viri==duces. So Corbulo is called, Ann. 15, 26. Expugnati et capti. Defeated and taken captive, For. and Fac. Properly expugnare is said of a fortress or city. But ektoliorkein in Greek is used in the same way, of persons. Compare expugnatis praesidiis, 16, note.
There was therein a more universal military expertness required, and that comprehended the most and the greatest qualities of a military man: "Neque enim eaedem militares et imperatorix artes sunt," as also, besides, a condition suitable to such a dignity.
Simpliciora militares decent. But as he appears, after all, to have had no military weapon with which to sustain that straight-forwardness of speech which is becoming in a military power, and no dagger to pursue his points with, some artifice, though he professes not to like it, may be necessary, and the rule which he here specifies is, on the whole, perhaps, not altogether amiss.
Even in the Dark Ages Arimanni were viri militares, and there is feudum Arimandiae in Lombard law. I have shown elsewhere that apparently the name of one part of Germania was given to the whole, and that from these Herminones or Hermunduri all the Teutonic peoples were named Hermanni or Germani.
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