At ille docere pergit non speciosa dictu, sed usu necessaria in rebus adversis sequenda esse; ferro geri bella, non auro, viris, non urbium tectis.
But Darius went on to show them that in times of adversity it was not at what was splendid to tell of, but at what was of actual service, that one must aim; that wars were waged with steel, not with gold, with men, not with the buildings of cities.
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