(i. iv. 49.)
And Cominius reports:
Alone he enter’d
The mortal gate of the city, which he painted
With shunless destiny; aidless came off.
(iI. ii. 114.)
But he is not merely, though he is conspicuously, a soldier. He is also a general who once and again gives proof of his strategic skill. Nor do his qualifications stop here. He has the forethought and insight of a statesman, at any rate in matters of foreign and military policy. He has anticipated the attack of the Volsces with which the play begins, as we learn from the remark of the First Senator:
Marcius, ’tis true that you have lately told us;
The Volsces are in arms.
(i. i. 231.)