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658 GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE Tianslate into Greek Of the Greek generals then living Pyrrhus was indisputably the first Among the troops who were trained in the Greek discipline his Epirotes ranked high His expedition to Italy was turning-point in the history of the world He found there people who far inferior to the Athenians and Corin- thians in the fine arts in the speculative sciences and in all the refinements of life were the best soldiers on the face of the earth Their arms their gradations of rank their order of battle their method of intrenchment were all of Latian origin and had all been gradually brought near to perfection not by the study of foreign models but by the genius and experience of many generations of great native commanders