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Paullus was a boss
One of the most epic sentences ever uttered, spoken at the defeat at Cannae when Paullus was offered a horse by Cornelius to escape the battle.
Lucius Aemilius Paullus:
"Long may you live to do brave deeds, Cornelius, but do not waste in useless pity the few moments left in which to escape from the hands of the enemy. Go, announce publicly to the Senate that they must fortify Rome and make strong its defence before the victorious enemy approaches, and tell Q. Fabius privately that I have ever remembered his precepts in life and in death. Suffer me to breathe my last among my slaughtered soldiers, let me not have to defend myself again when I am no longer consul, or appear as the accuser of my colleague and protect my own innocence by throwing the guilt on another. "
TLDR: Lucius Aemilius Paullus was a boss.