If the campaign is in summer the general must show himself greedy for his share of the sun and the heat, and in winter for the cold and the frost, and in all labours for toil and fatigue. This will help to make him beloved of his followers.


Cyropaedia, Bk. 1, ch. 6; as translated by Henry Graham Dakyns in Cyropaedia (2004) p. 31.

Xenophon Quotes

If the campaign is in summer the general must show himself greedy for his share of the sun and the heat, and in winter for the cold and the frost,...

If the campaign is in summer the general must show himself greedy for his share of the sun and the heat, and in winter for the cold and the frost,...

If the campaign is in summer the general must show himself greedy for his share of the sun and the heat, and in winter for the cold and the frost,...

If the campaign is in summer the general must show himself greedy for his share of the sun and the heat, and in winter for the cold and the frost,...