the roamer<p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Plutarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plutarch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ParallelLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParallelLives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FabiusMaximus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FabiusMaximus</span></a> 3/</p><p>He saw that the conduct of the state was a great task, and that wars must be many; he therefore trained his body for the wars (nature's own armour, as it were), and his speech as an instrument of persuasion with the people, giving it a form right well befitting his manner of life. </p><p>His speech had no affectation, nor any empty, forensic grace, but an import of peculiar dignity, rendered weighty by an abundance of maxims.</p><p>[Section 1]</p>