De Officiis [On Duties; On Moral Duty; The Offices], Book 1, ch. 22 (1.22) / sec. 76 (44 BC) [tr. Miller (1913)] - Cicero, Marcus Tullius | WIST Quotations
For arms are of little value in the field unless there is wise counsel at home. [Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.] Peabody comments, "A verse, quoted probably from some lost comedy, the measure being one employed by the comic poets." None of the other translators call…