Word: aemilius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brief talk to the brass. Johnson recalled that "a friend of mine, observing some of my problems, recently sent me for my desk a quotation from a Roman consul back in 168 B.C." The consul was Lucius Aemilius Paulus, speaking to the Roman Senate, which had picked him to lead Rome's legions in the Macedonian war, then heaped criticism upon his conduct of that war. Said Paulus: "I am not one of those who think that commanders ought at no time to receive advice; on the contrary, 1 should deem that man more proud than wise who regulated...