Whither are we fleeing, my most valiant men?

Julian, to his fleeing troops at the Battle of Strasbourg, reported in Ammianus, Res gestae, bk. 16, ch. 12, sec. 40 (tr. J. C. Rolfe, i, 1935). His army rallied and defeated the German forces. Here, the term "republic" was used in its literal Latin meaning to denote the Roman state.