[40] Under the reigns of those princes, the science of tactics was cultivated with success; and as long as the empire retained any vigor, their military instructions were respected as the most perfect model of Roman discipline.
[Footnote 36: Exercitus ab exercitando, Varro de Lingua Latina, l.
iv.

Cicero in Tusculan.l.ii.37.15.

There is room for a very interesting work, which should lay open the connection between the languages and manners of nations.

* Note I am not aware of the existence, at present, of such a work; but the profound observations of the late William von Humboldt, in the introduction to his posthumously published Essay on the Language of the Island of Java, (uber die Kawi-sprache, Berlin, 1836,) may cause regret that this task was not completed by that accomplished and universal scholar .-- M.] [Footnote 37: Vegatius, l.ii.and the rest of his first book.] [Footnote 38: The Pyrrhic dance is extremely well illustrated by M.
le Beau, in the Academie des Inscriptions, tom.xxxv.p.262, &c.

That learned academician, in a series of memoirs, has collected all the passages of the ancients that relate to the Roman legion.] [Footnote 39: Joseph.