The playne and euident speche is learned of Gramarians, and it keepeth the oracion pure, and without all faute, and maketh that euerye thyng may Seme to be spoken purelye apertlye, and clerelye.
"A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes"
Richard Sherry Commentator: Herbert W. Hildebrandt
And when the rankes of thextraordinarie pikes, which are placed on the flanckes, should Seme unto you thinne, thei maie bee brought into a quadrante, and put on the flancke nere the twoo battailes, whiche I set in the laste companie of the armie: From the whiche place, thei maie easely altogether succour the fronte, and the backe of the armie, and minister helpe to the horses, accordyng as nede shall require.
"Machiavelli, Volume I The Art of War; and The Prince"
Niccolò Machiavelli
Against this order, Scipio set the Astati, the Prencipi, and the Triarii, in the accustomed maner, to bee able to receive the one the other, and to rescue the one the other: he made the fronte of the armie, full of voide spaces, and bicause it should not be perceived but rather should Seme united, he filled them ful of veliti, to whom he commaunded, that so sone as the Eliphantes came, thei should avoide, and by the ordinarie spaces, should enter betwene the Legins, and leave open the waie to the Eliphauntes, and so it came to passe, that it made vaine the violence of theim, so that commyng to handes, he was superiour.
"Machiavelli, Volume I The Art of War; and The Prince"
Niccolò Machiavelli