Sentences with mercenary
mer·ce·nar·y
M m - J. Argyrofylus, a mercenary Greek, who came to teach school in Italy, after the sacking of Constantinople by the Turks, used to maintain that Cicero understood neither Philosophy nor Greek
- He exhorts the emperor to revive the courage of his subjects by the example of manly virtue; to banish luxury from the court and from the camp; to substitute in the place of the Barbarian mercenaries, an army of men interested in the defence of their laws and of their property
- You need to be mercenary, you need to have no shame about stealing, perhaps word for word.
- Rome depended more on higher paid mercenary armies to defend her borders.
- For the salary of one “cheap” mercenary, the army could instead hire seven professional privates first class.