Tum vero pro se quisque operam suam offerre, difficillima quaeque poscere, polliceri militum quoque obsequum, si animos eorum leni et apta oratione  permulcere voluisset; numquam infractos et abiectos recessisse, quotiens ipsius alacritatem et tanti animi spiritus haurire potuissent.
Then indeed each general individually offered his service, demanded the most difficult tasks, promised also the obedience of the soldiers, if the king would consent to soothe their feelings by a mild and appropriate  address; that they had never held back spiritless and downcast, whenever they had been able to draw upon his enthusiasm and the inspiration of so great a mind.
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