Aemilius Paulus lectures his troops about being patient with their generals, takes away their javelins.

>But [he](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/The_Triumph_of_Aemilius_Paulus_%28detail%29.jpg) [**Paulus**], in the meantime, busy in thought, weighted all counsels and all means of attack, and perceiving his soldiers, from their former want of discipline, to be impatient of delay, and ready on all occasions to teach their general his duty, rebuked them, and bade them not meddle with what was not their concern, but only take care that they and their arms were in readiness, and to use their swords like Romans when their commander should think fit to employ them. >Further, he ordered that the sentinels by night should watch without javelins, that thus they might be more careful and surer to resist sleep, having no arms to defend themselves against any attacks of an enemy. _______________________________ **Source:** Plutarch, John Dryden, and Arthur Hugh Clough. "Aemilius Paulus." *Plutarch's Lives*. New York: Modern Library, 2001. 364. Print. _______________________________ **Further Reading:** [Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Aemilius_Paullus_Macedonicus)