In instructing the young men to fight boldly, he said that ofttimes talk is better than the sword and the voice better than the hand to rout and bewilder the enemy. 1
1 Ibid. chap. i. (336 E); cf. also Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus, chap. viii. (216 F); Life of M. Cato, chap. x. (241 F).