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Show ··' ofwar 11ntl Peace commanded to ha. ve no iron , but for a. oriculcure; and others have been compeld ~0 chanoe their language and cour!e .0f life. M~eover , as things w htch did be. long to particular men , are acquir• d by the right of war t<? the~, who fubjeel thoie men to themtelves;io alfo the things of a Community become theirs who fub· jeCt to themfelvts the Community, if they plcafe. v1nnibal in his Oration to Liy.llb. 43• his Soldiers : Whatfoever the Romam do poffifl, being gotten and heaped up with [o many triumphs , All that together with Strabo 1ib.u.. the mafters will fu ours. So 'Pompey,what c./Wit hridat e s had taken and added to his Empire , iubdued to the Roman people. Wherefore al[o in corporal rights of a com· munity will become the Conqueror's , (o DioDyf. 3· far as he pleaieth. So, Alba being con· quer' d, the Romans challenged to them· fel ves the rights of the A /bans. Whence it follows, that the The j[a/itft1Js were who!· ly freed from the obligation of the hun· dred talents ; which fum, due from them to the Theban.r , Alexander the Great, having conquerd Thebes, forgave them by the right of viCtory. Nor is thattrue which in 9.!tintilian is alleged on behaU of the Thebam, that that only is the con· queror's which he holds himfeJf: and,in· corporal right cannot be holden;and that the condition of an heir and of a conque· ror is different , becaufe the right paffeth to the former the thino to the later. For, .. I , 0 . ~ The third part. 57S be chat is Malter of the Per[ons • is aJfo Mailer of the things , and of ·an right . . • which belongs to the Perfons. He that is L. 9"' na[trw· otfdfed , doth not poifefs for hirflfelf. ~Rtt.eft. de"'· . P h h h h" . h' 'JMru. L.{iceflt. nor at eanyt mg1n tspower,whoniet.D.adle, .. · hath not himfelf. Yea, if one leave the J•d.de«dMlt. right of a Commonwealth to a conquerd peeple, he may take to himfelf tome things which were the Commonwealths; for, it is at his pleafure, to appoint what mea[ure he wiJI to his own favour. The fatl of Alexander was imitated by Cefar, when he forgave thofe of Dyrrachium the debt which they owed tofome one of the . . adverfe party. But here might be obje· c,,,tp. •tllrMt. Cl:ed, that the War of (te[ar was not of 6• that kind of which this Law of Nations was eflablifhed t. t Antonius ,commanded rbe Tyrians to reftore what they poffeffed of the Jews, not granred to th m by the Senate , and poffeifcd bcfo.rc die War of Caf.. fllll. Jo[ephll4. vtdt & Be,cruM Genumfil hifl•r.lib. Jo. XL I I I. ~dmonitions ahout things Cap. 10. . done m an Hnjuft War • I Mufr now retprn, and takeaway from thofe that wage War almoft all that I have .feemed to give them, and yet have not gtven. For I iaid at firfi, when I began to explain this part of the Law of Nofa~io1l)s, ~h,at1 rnanhy things are lawfull ,ol· ~· .. . ~1g 1t, 1,t1 t 1at t ey are done m.tpune , 'With~ut p~nifhmenc , and partly becaufe 'oa6hve Judgments do lend them their a~thority |