Cornelius Nepos
100-24 BCE
Trans RMBullard
Latin (Republican Era/Golden Age of Latin Literature)
CORNELI NEPOTIS IPHICRATES
[1] IPHICRATES Atheniensis non tam magnitudine rerum gestarum quam disciplina militari nobilitatus est.
[Iphicrates, an Athenian, was not so famed from the greatest of his accomplishments, than his military discipline.]
Fuit enim talis dux,
[You see, he was the kind of leader]
ut non solum aetatis suae cum primis compararetur,
[such that he was not only compared with the leading men of his generation,]
sed ne de maioribus nata quidem quisquam anteponeretur.
[but also that, when it came to greater men, no one could outrank him in terms of birth.]
2 Multum vero in bello est versatus,
[In fact, he was very well-versed in warfare,]
saepe exercitibus praefuit;
[and he was often put at the head of his forces;]
nusquam culpa male rem gessit,
[He never did anything with malintention,]
semper consilio vicit
[he always prevailed in his counsel,]
tantumque eo valuit,
[and he was capable to such a point,]
ut multa in re militari partim nova attulerit,
[such that he could carry out many things in the field of warfare, even innovative ones,]
