SELF-RENEWING • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Self-renewing

... unable either to hold their ground against the better arms and the thrusts of the Romans, or against their individual superior tenacity, increased nearly tenfold by the possible relay of eight ranks of the maniple. The maniples were self-renewing. Whereas with the Gauls the duration of the combat was limited to the strength of a single man, on account of the difficulties of close or tumultuous ranks, and the impossibility of replacing losses when they were fighting at ...

— Battle Studies • Colonel Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq