Postea vero quam in Asia Cyrus, in Graecia Lacedaemonii et Athenienses coepere urbis atque nationes subigere, lubidinem dominandi causam belli habere, maxumam gloriam in maxumo imperio putare, tum demum periculo atque negotiis conpertum est in bello plurumum ingenium posse.
But after Cyrus in Asia, and the Spartans and Athenians in Greece, had begun to subdue cities and peoples, to treat their lust for dominion as a justification for war, to equate the greatest glory with possession of the greatest empire, then finally it was ascertained from perilous enterprises that in war the intellect can accomplish the most.
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