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This poem is dedicated to that classic tidbit of the jaded soldier:
"Some Thracian now enjoys my blameless shield,
which I unwillingly left beside a bush.
But I was saved; what do I care about that shield?
Let it go, I'll get another no worse."- Archilocus, 7th Century BC