>When the Carthaginian had spoken thus, Kaiso replied: ‘This is what we Romans are like (I shall tell you things that are beyond dispute, so that you may report them back to your city): with those who make war on us we agree to fight on their terms, and when it comes to foreign practices we surpass those who have long been used to them. For the Tyrrhenians used to make war on us with bronze shields and fighting in phalanx formation, not in maniples; and we, changing our armament and replacing it with theirs, organised our forces against them, and contending thus against men who had long been accustomed to phalanx battles we were victorious. Similarly the Samnite [oblong] shield was not part of our national equipment, nor did we have javelins, but fought with round shields and spears; nor were we strong in cavalry, but all or nearly all of Rome’s strength lay in infantry. But when we found ourselves at war with the Samnites we armed ourselves with their oblong shields and javelins, and fought against them on horseback, and by copying foreign arms we became masters of those who thought so highly of themselves. Nor were we familiar, Carthaginians, with the art of siege warfare; but we learned from the Greeks, who were highly experienced in this field, and proved superior in siegecraft to that accomplished race, and indeed to all mankind. Do not force the Romans to engage in affairs of the sea; for if we have need of naval forces we shall, in a short time, equip more and better ships than you, and we shall prove more effective in naval battles than people who have long practised seafaring.’
*lets in thousands of g*rmiggers**falls apart*
>>223472144Germnggers protected them from Huns though.
I'm not reading all that.
>>223472200I've read 2000 pages to find this and it's not a known paragraph you ungrateful fuck.
>>223472226I read it but where's the source?
>>223472237The beginnings of Rome, Cornell, but you will lose your mind reading it so I advise some other book.
>>223471921Honestly thats the same thing that makes the US military good today. They sit down and LEARN, grabbed auftragstaktik, ditched conscription when it didnt work for them anymore. Willingness to adapt is a great strength. We can see from the russians how inflated believe in themselves has fucked them up.>Why yes, I shall solve my wars by spending minorities and the underclass inefficiently. It's a win/win!
>>223472299US was founded on our values, only makes sense.
>>223472339>US was founded on our values>checks flag
>>223472200>on the reading website
>>223472957Genetically I have nothing to do with Serbs because I descend from the Pollian clan who came with Aeneas from Troy. We were one of the few dozen genus that would found Rome with Romulus.I am not sure when we made run for Montenegro to be accepted by a local tribe but probably in the 400s.
>>223472284>KaisoIs that supposed to be a latin name?
>>223473216Seems to have been spelled Caseo and it's either wrong in the text or I typed it wrong but that seems unlikely as I copy-pasted it.He was an ambassador and he told this to the Carthaginian ambassador before the 1st Punic war.Apperantly this text was not translated from Latin and ignored due to it's "irrelevance" in the grand scheme of things but I find it interesting to see how we thought back then even though what we know of ourselves now paints a much better picture than what we know of our past from that point.It's basically a national myth and not really accurate. But believing shit like this is how we recovered after Cannae instead of giving up. Carthaginians loved money and Baal while Romans were raised on Mos Majorum.
>>223473075When the US was a proper Republic your rights were given to you on your birth by God. The government was there to protect you from losing those rights.The Roman Republic was not like that.
>>223473369Irrelevant details plus Republican Rome was peak of human virtue (before likes of S*lla and C*esar) while America is peak of human degeneracy and decadence.
