Dieses thaten sie, weil sie selbst ohne Länder und auf persönliche Mittel beschränkt, mittelst weniger Fußvölker kein großes Ansehn erhalten, zahlreiche aber nicht ernähren konnten. Sie beschränkten sich also auf Reiterei, wo sie denn mittelst einer geringern Zahl Unterhalt und Ehre zu gewinnen vermochten.
They did this because, subsisting on their pay and without territory, they were unable to support many soldiers, and a few infantry did not give them any authority; so they were led to employ cavalry, with a moderate force of which they were maintained and honoured; and affairs were brought to such a pass that, in an army of twenty thousand soldiers, there were not to be found two thousand foot soldiers.