of; having with them no other foundation than the sole jealousy of valour.  Their disputes are not for the conquest of new lands, for these they already possess are so fruitful by nature, as to supply them without labour or concern, with all things necessary, in such abundance that they have no need to enlarge their borders.  And they are, moreover, happy in this, that they only covet so much as their natural necessities require:  all beyond that is superfluous to them:  men of the same age call one another generally brothers, those who are younger, children; and the old men are fathers to all.  These leave to their heirs in common the full possession of goods, without any manner of division, or other title than what nature bestows upon her creatures, in bringing them into the world.  If their neighbours pass over the mountains to assault them, and obtain a victory, all the victors gain by it is glory only, and the advantage of having proved themselves the better in valour and virtue:  for they never meddle with the goods of the conquered, but presently return into their own country, where they have no want of anything necessary, nor of this greatest of all goods, to know happily how to enjoy their condition and to be content.  And those in turn do the same; they demand of their prisoners no other ransom, than acknowledgment that they are overcome:  but there is not one found in an age, who will not rather choose to die than make such a confession, or either by word or look recede from the entire grandeur of an invincible courage.  There is not a man amongst them who had not rather be killed and eaten, than so much as to open his mouth to entreat he may not.  They use them with all liberality and freedom, to the end their lives may be so much the dearer to them; but frequently entertain them with menaces of their approaching death, of the torments they are to suffer, of the preparations making in order to it, of the mangling their limbs, and of the feast that is to be made, where their carcass is to be the only dish.  All which they do, to no other end, but only to extort some gentle or submissive word from them, or to frighten them so as to make them run away, to obtain this advantage that they were terrified, and that their constancy was shaken; and indeed, if rightly taken, it is in this point only that a true victory consists: 

                              “Victoria nulla est,
          Quam quae confessor animo quoque subjugat hostes.”

     ["No victory is complete, which the conquered do not admit to be
     so.—­“Claudius, De Sexto Consulatu Honorii, v. 248.]