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   Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations.  1989.
 
 
NUMBER:1176
AUTHOR:Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
QUOTATION:Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, “It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.”
ATTRIBUTION:FRANCIS BACON, “Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates,” The Essays or Counsels Civil & Moral of Francis Bacon, p. 129 (1905).

  Bacon quoted the words of Thyrsis in Virgil’s Eclogue VII.
SUBJECTS:Military affairs
WORKS:Francis Bacon Collection
 
 
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