The belly and the feet were arguing over their strength. The feet kept insisting that they were so much stronger that they could even carry the belly itself. But the belly replied, “My friends, unless I take in food, you will not be able to carry anything.” So too with armies: the soldiers are powerless unless their generals exercise sound judgment.
Κοιλία καὶ πόδες περὶ δυνάμεως ἤριζον. Παρʼ ἕκαστα δὲ τῶν ποδῶν λεγόντων, ὅτι προέχουσι τῇ ἰσχύϊ τοσοῦτον, ὥστε καὶ αὐτὴν τὴν γαστέρα βαστάζειν, ἐκείνη ἀπεκρίνατο· „ὦ οὗτοι, ἐὰν μὴ ἐγὼ τροφὴν προσλάβωμαι, οὐδʼ ὑμεῖς βαστάζειν δυνήσεσθε.“
Οὕτω καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν στρατευμάτων ἀδύνατοί εἰσιν οἱ στρατιῶται, ἄν μὴ οἱ στρατηγοὶ ἄριστα φρονῶσι.
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