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1. Destrier does indeed derive from the Latin for right-hand (dexter).

2. Livy, XXIII, xxix.

3. Herodotus, History, VIII.

4. ’95: King Charles was saved… (According to Bishop Paolo Giovio, Historiae sui temporis.)

5. The [C] text of Bordeaux is damaged here. It is slightly different, where read-able, from the ’95 posthumous text given here.

6. Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, V, 11; Suetonius, Life of Caesar.

7. Plato, Laws, VII, 789A ff.; Pliny, Hist. nat., XXVIII, xiv.

8. ’80: the enactment of Cyrus, forbidding…

9. Xenophon, Cyropaedia; Justinus, Historia (an extract of Trogus Pompeius).

10. Livy, IX, xxii.

11. In the Cyropaedia he praises the role of cavalry.

12. Aeneid, X, 756–7.

13. Livy, XXV, xli.

14. Lucan, Pharsalia, VIII, 384–6.

15. The chapter in which this was treated was stolen by a manservant. (Cf. II, 9 and 37.)

16. Virgil, Aeneid, IX, 704–5.

17. Livy, XXXVIII, xxix; v; xxi. (Both the Ancient Galatians and the Turks were believed to be cousins of the French.)

18. Xenophon, Anabasis (the Greek retreat from Asia); Diodorus Siculus for the huge catapults.

19. ’80: on his horse adopted… ’80: words. I do not know what manoeuvre this might be, unless it were one of our ‘passades’. Caesar… (Both anecdotes from the Chroniques d’Enguerran de Monstrelet, which continue those of Froissait.) 20. Caesar, Gallic Wars, IV (of the Suevi of north-east Germany).

21. Virgil, Aeneid, IV, 41–3.

22. Livy, XXXV, xi.

23. Both the letters and the Book of Marcus Aurelius by Bishop Antonio de Guevara were termed ‘Golden’. Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier was written in Italian for the Court of Francis I.

24. Xenophon, Cyropaedia, III, iii.

25. Martial, Epigrams: Spectacula III, 4.

26. Valerius Maximus, VII.

27. Paolo Giovio, Disciplinae Turcae militis; Lopez de Gomara, Historia de Capitano Don Ferdinando Cortes; Flavius Arrianus, De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni.

28. Livy, VIII, xxx; XL, xl.

29. Jan Herbut (tr. F. Baudouin), Histoire des Roys de Pologne, Paris, 1573 (Latin edn, Basle, 1571).

30. Nicolas Chalcocondylas, Histoire de la décadence de l’Empire grec (tr. V. de Vigenère); Herodotus, History, I, lxxxviii.

31. Plutarch, Life of Nicias.

32. Quintus Curtius, VII, viii.

33. Henry Porsius and George Lebelski, Histoire de la guerre de Perse [of 1578], Avecques la description des jeux… à Constantinople [of 1582] (Paris, 1583).