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