Excerpt from The Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Vol. 2 of 2 Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his virtue and 'valor, gave his physicians strict charge to cure him of a long and in ward disease under which he had a great while languished and observing that, after his cure, he went much more coldly to work than before, he asked him what had so altered and cowed him: Yourself, sir, replied the other, by having eased me of the pains that made me weary of my Lucullus' soldier having been rifled by the enemy, peformed upon them in revenge a brave exploit, by which having made himself a gainer, Lucullus, who had conceived a good opinion of him from that action, went about to engage him in some enterprise of very great dau ger, with all the plausible persuasions and promises he could think of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.