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Show of War 4nd Pe4tt . to compell his Confederate , to. ftand ~o tbe Articles of theleague , a~, 1r~e w1ll not , to punifh him. But this alio .. Is not .Peculiar to the uneq~all ~eague : It hath p)ace too in that whtch li equall. For, . that one may take revenge of him that hath offended , 'tis fufficient, tha: he b.e not iubje& to the offender C of vvh1ch ellwhere:) wherefore the fame thing comes to pafs between Kings,or people no~ con- . federate. In the third kinde, as m an tquat league,controverfies.are wont to be • T1lA ton1Jt'lt- brouoht before ~n Aifernbly *of the Cont• s "'ocatuf reder~tes , to wit, fuch ali are not concer- -.ul'l.«er. Jl h G ned.. in the quefbon ; as we 1ead t e re-cians the ancient Latms , and the Germans ~fold have done; or elfe before Arbitrators, or befol'e the Pri~ce of the .Af{ Qciaci.on as a comtnon A.rbmarot.:So ma league \lnequal , i~ is agreed for the moH p~rt,that the conuov~rlies ?e deba.ted before him who is fupenour m the league. This therefore doth not prov.e any .p_ower of command : for Kings allo do ~tuaUy try their caufes before j~dg~s of their own coniHtution. In the lafl: kmde, t~e con· federates have no rioht of cogmzan.ce. , ~ Therefore Vll.hep Her/d volun~arily ~ar~ed to .Aug11-jfus certain acc~auons agal~fr 1o(tpb.l. I'· his ions; Tou might , fald thJ.' ~'/! c. 7, 8. UJ 'JOUr [elf, both as a fath.lr' tfn ~ ~d • Vidt P1ly~. in And Scipio*, when Anmbat '!"~s acou~d k~•ti,.u, t~· at 1?....fJ'ItJc by certainr Ctrth~tgmt~tt~J·, fa.1 ' fill'' Iof. the Confcript Fatb(rs o~ht oot co ~~· ~erpo1c 7 ht Firft I 29 terpofe in a bulinds of the ,carthaginian Val. VW(lx J. Commonwealth. And herein ( as Ari~ 4· c. 1 • ftotle ceacheth) a confederacy and a com- . . Poltt < · monwealth do differ , that Confederates • 3· 9• take care no common ·m jury be don,e un-to them; not· that the Citizens of a Con-federate Commonwealth do no injury one aga'infi inother. LVII. Another Ob ;eElion anfwered~ J JI is .objeet~d alfo, that i~1 hill:ories be. ·. that 1~ fupenor in the league is femetunes fa1d to command ; he that is inferior, to obey. But , nei:her ouoht this co . 0 move us. For,etthcr it is treated ofthinos P.ertaining to the common good of the Sgctet. y '.or of his private utility who is fupenor m the league. In common affairs out of time of Affcmbly, even where ch~ League is equal , the cuffome is for him who is chofen Chief of the league,to have command over his Confederates,as Agamemnort ~ver the Grd.tian K'ings, the Laced. emontttns over the Gu.ciam afterward; and after 'them the Athenians. In the Speech of the Corinthians in Thucydidcs we reJd:It hecomes them that are Princes of the lettgu2, not to fcelz. thtir olvh p_arti..: tu.lar ad-vantage 'hut contmt th(mfcive.r wzth an emincnq ahove the reft in taking ~are of the commo?Z lntereft. liocrates relates, that the antient .Atheni'a.ns had the conduet of Greece , and the charffc of all K .!> tluii: |
