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Show of w.cr And Ptll&e ptttrocinium [ociorum ,non imperium.\V ith Liv. tib. i.t. vwhom agrees 'ftell that faymg of Scipio .Africanus the elder : The people of Rome hadratJ.t,roblig-e men by5;tvuurthanfear, ,rnd unite forein Nt~ttions to them by a faithfull ajfocia.tion, than Jubdu~ them t1 ,. grievous Jervttude:and that whlchStra~ o relates of the LaceJemonians after the Romttm c::tme into Greece:They remamed free, conferr_ing nothing , bcjide a frrendlJ aide. As pnvate patronage taketh not away perfonal liberty, fo publique patro· naoe taketh not away Civil liberty ,which wi~hout iupremacy of power cannot be underfi:ood. Therefore we fee . thefe are oppofed in Livy, To be under proteCNo11 , and To be under command : And .AHguftus, in Jofephus , threatens the .A:abian KingSyll~us, unleis he would ceaie from doino his neiohbours w1·ong , He would take ~rder , that of a f riend he ibould be made. a fubje& : of which quality were the Kmgs of .Armenia , who . ( as P mu wrote to Volngefes} were within the. Ro· man dominion; and therefore were Kmgs, ,' rather in the found of the name than re· . ally: fuch as wcrc .th~ Cr~rian and othe: . Kinos of old undti· the Kmgs of Perfla · .-l,_,.l,'J¥.1ib~ ~ s:bjects, as Diodorus faith. s6. LVI. .An Objeefi6~ Anf wered. p Roculus addeth fomewhat which feem· cth oppofite to that we ba ve faid:1here .fTI ~re accufed before m Jome oft he conftdtr~tt Citiu,& after (entenceofcondemnationwe infliil upon them punijhmeNt. Bur, for the underflanding hereof, we mull know , that four kindes of Comroverfies may happen. Firtl:, if the fubjeels of a people or King, thatis under the protectioh of anoth'r, be faid to have done againtl the league: Secondly, if the people or the King ~imielf be accufed : Thirdly , if the Fellowes, which are under protedion of the fame people or King, contend with one another : FoHrthly, if the fubjeets complain of the in juries of their own Rulers. In the firfi kinde , if a fuult appear, the King or people is bound, either to punifh the oftenqor, or to give him up to the party in jured : which holds , not only 'twixt unequats, but between thofe that are equally confederat , yea and a• mong them that are not at all confede-i '. rate, as we lhall lhew elf where. He is al- • Gallus <A!lifo bound to r.ndeavour that dammaoes us apud Femay be repaired : which at Rome ..:a'S ftum: Rtcipt· the Office of the Recuperators *. But one ratio 1[J cum in· of the Afi"ociats in the league hith no di- C: populf4~ t:;" .n. • h ...., . ~egtJ 1#Atlont1q; re\:1~ rtg t to . apprehend or pumih the ac ci'tlitates pe-fubJeCh of hts <2onfederate. Wherefore rtgrinaJ ltx co•? ecius Magi•s, a Campanian, being put 'limit, ~uomod1 m bands by A11nibal, and carried to Cy- per rm~er..ttll-d h rtm red,._antur rene, an t ence to Ale)l;andria; fhewed rts ,reel ertn~ that he was bound by Annibal againfl: turq; r:}t; pri~ the league , and fo was freed. In the fe- 'llltltl inter [c cond way, the confederate hath a rioht pr.oflq~antllr. t;l Lw, lib. lJ • to |