Steele Brand

And for a guy, he hardly ever loses a battle.

Some would say he never loses a battle.

So that's going to be important for him.

And that's what he's going to spend most of his time talking about.

He's going to do it by looking at the abilities of the commanders.

Now, what is terrific that I think that he does?

He goes into the commanders and he spends a great deal of time on that.

He talks about the current generation of Romans, and he lists about a dozen of these generation of Romans.

So I talked about this already, how the Romans have two annually elected consuls, but they also have proconsuls and proprietors.

Well, these are the guys who are going to be commanding the Roman armies, okay?

He mentions a couple of other great commanders in history, Pompey the Great.

Livy's taking a risk here, playing up Pompey the Great so much for

his patron, because his patron's father fought against, adoptive father fought against Pompey the Great, but Livy's in some ways very Republican.

He mentioned Cyrus, and he says, Cyrus, Pompey the Great, Alexander...

They're great.

But hey, we got a dozen of the leading Romans.

And they're just the leading ones that I care to mention.

And they're just as good.

And then he goes back and he talks about they are building on other generations.

And he talks about the Junii, the Valerii, the Fabii, the Quintii, the Cornelii, and Camillus.