Roman soldiers
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Tusculan Disputations
Roman military forces, described through their training, marches, and discipline as models of endurance under hardship and wounds.
The age of recruits is generally better, but to bear toil, to despise a wound, custom teaches.
to carry rations for more than half a month, to carry whatever they may want for use, to carry the stake (for shield, sword, helmet our soldiers count no more part of their burden than their shoulders, arms, hands — for they say arms are the soldier's limbs;
De Corona
The Roman soldiers who devised the crown of thorns placed on Christ as an act of mockery.
It was a device of the Roman soldiers, from the usage of secular matters—which the people of God never admitted, neither in the name of public gladness nor of inborn luxury, returning more readily from the Babylonian captivity with drums and pipes and psalteries than with horns, and rising after food and drink to play without crowns.