15.
The other order is that of the knights. These, when there is occasion and any war
occurs (which before Caesar's arrival was for the most
part wont to happen every year, as either they on their part were inflecting
injuries or repelling those which others inflected on them), are all engaged in
war. And those of them most distinguished by birth and resources, have the
greatest number of vassals and dependents about them. They acknowledge this sort
of influence and power only.
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