Ah there is one thing about them more wonderful than their numbers … in all that vast number there is not one man called Gisgo.

Spoken as a jest to one of his officers named Gisgo, who had remarked on the numbers of Roman forces against them before the Battle of Cannae (2 August 216 BC), as quoted in A History of Rome (1855), by Henry George Liddell Vol. 1, p. 355