Quam pro se quisque eques pedesque subire certabant; equites, cum quibus rex proelia inire solitus erat, sui muneris id esse censebant, pedites contra, cum saucios commilitones ipsi gestare assuevissent, eripi sibi proprium officium tum potissimum, cum rex gestandus esset, querebantur.
All the cavalry and the infantry vied with one another as to who should carry it; the cavalry, with whom the king had been wont to enter battle, thought that it was a part of their privilege, the infantry on the other hand, since they themselves had been accustomed to carry their injured comrades, complained that their proper duty was being taken from them just at the  very time when the king had to be carried.
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