STRATAGEMS, II. viii. 2-9
day was saved, for the Romans with the greatest eagerness pressed forward to recapture the standard.^
The consul Titus Quinctius Capitolinus hurled a standard into the midst of the hostile ranks of the Faliscans and commanded his troops to regain it.^
Marcus Furius Camillus, military tril)une with consular power, on one occasion when his troops held back, seized a standard-bearer by the hand and dragged him into the hostile ranks of the V^olscians and Latins, whereupon the rest were shamed into following.-^
Salvius, the Pelignian, did the same in the Persian War.*
Marcus Furius, meeting his army in retreat, declared he would receive in camp no one who was not victorious. Thereupon he led them back to battle and won the day.^
Scipio, at Numantia, seeing his forces in retreat, proclaimed that he would treat as an enemy whoever should return to camp.^
The dictator Servilius Priscus, having given the command to carry the standards of the legions against the hostile Faliscans, ordered the standard- bearer to be executed for hesitating to obey. The rest, cowed bv this example, advanced against the foe.'
Cornelius Cossus, master of the horse, did the same in an engagement with the people of Fidenae.^
6 381 B.C. Camillus. Cf. Livy vi. 24.
6 133 B.C.
' 418 B.C. According to Livy iv. 46—47, the battle was with the Aequi, not the Faliscans.
« 426 B.C. Cf. Livy iv. xxxiii. 7 ; Flor. i. xi. 2-3. This stratagem is similar to number 10, rather than number 8.
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