Collaborative effort of a team to achieve a common goal

King Scilurus of Scythia teaches his eighty sons the lesson of strength through unity: individual arrows can easily be broken, but a bundle of arrows together cannot. Etching by J. Basire the elder, 1768, after P. Berrettini, Pietro da Cortona.

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