[Footnote 9: According to the first book of the Cyropaedia,
professors of tactics, a small part of the science of war,
were already instituted in Persia, by which Greece must be
understood. A good edition of all the Scriptores Tactici
would be a task not unworthy of a scholar. His industry
might discover some new Mss., and his learning might
illustrate the military history of the ancients. But this
scholar should be likewise a soldier; and alas! Quintus
Icilius is no more.
Note: M. Guichardt, author of Memoires Militaires sur les
Grecs et sur les Romains. See Gibbon's Extraits Raisonnees
de mes Lectures, Misc. Works vol. v. p. 219. - M]