de bello gallico, 5.30

With this discussion having been had into each part, when by Cotta and the first orders it was fiercely resisted, Sabinus said, “Win if you want it so” and he said this with a clearer voice, so that a great part of the soldiers would clearly hear, “I am not this man, who out of you is most greatly terrified by the danger of death: these men will know; if anything more serious happens, they will demand an account from you who, if it should be permitted through you, would endure the common chance of war with the rest, having been joined with the nearest winter quarters the day after tomorrow, not, repulsed and relegated far form the rest, would die either by the sword or by famine.