[SCHRAGE STELLUNG, as we did at Leutheu], thereby outflanking
Pompey's people, and ruining their manoeuvre and them. 'A dexterous
man, that Quintus Icilius the Centurion!' observed Friedrich. 'Ah,
yes: but excuse me, your Majesty, his name was Quintus Caecilius,'
said Guichard. 'No, it was Icilius,' said the King, positive to his
opinion on that small point; which Guichard had not the art to let
drop; though, except assertion and counter-assertion, what could be
made of it there? Or of what use was it anywhere?

"Next day, Guichard came with the book [what "Book" nobody would
ever yet tell me], and putting his finger on the passage, 'See,
your Majesty: Quintus CAEcilius!' extinguished his royal opponent.
'Hm,' answered Friedrich: 'so?--Well, you shall be Quintus Icilius,
at any rate!' And straightway had him entered on the Army Books 'as
Major Quintus Icilius;' his Majorship is to be dated '10th April,
1758' (to give him seniority); and from and after this '26th May,
1759,' he is to command the late Du Verger's Free-Battalion.
All which was done:--the War-Offices somewhat astonished at such
advent of an antique Roman among them; but writing as bidden, the
hand being plain, and the man an undeniable article. Onward from
which time there is always a 'Battalion Quintus' on their Books,
instead of Battalion Du Verger; by degrees two Batallions Quintus,
and at length three, and Quintus become a Colonel:--at which point
the War ended; and the three Free-Battalions Quintus, like all
others of the same type, were discharged." This is the authentic
origin of the new name Quintus, which Guichard got, to extinction
of the old; substantially this, as derived from Quintus himself,--
though in the precise details of it there are obscurities, never
yet solved by the learned. Nicolai, for example, though he had the
story from Quintus in person, who was his familiar acquaintance,