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Show I I .. - · • LVIII. whether in the name ofConft• Mraus u,• ~tmttinea th~[t , I , , I Wt flut/t' /J1 fo. • • I I T is an· illufrri.ous queflion, Whether in name of the Confederates are meant only thofe that were fo. in the time of making the league , or al[o tho[e that become fo afterward :as ·m the league made . .·between the people of Rome and {ar- Vt~~uft!; pDpul• th~tffe after the war about Sici!J · The ftJez, ab utroque 6 . h fh b' r populi tuti[TIII· Confederates of ett er people all e 1ml-to, red from them both. Hence the ~mans inferred , although the Agreement made with Ajdr~tbal, of not paffing the riv~r Jherus , profited th~m nothing , becau!e the Canh~tgtnians had not confirmed It; yet, if the Carthaginians did approve the fa& of Annihal fetting upon the SagNn .. tines, whom the Romtms, after the league, baa taken to them as Confederates, that then war miaht be proclam·d againft .them', as V10l~torsof the Le~ue. Livy Lib. :u. thus decbres the Reafons: '1 'ht Sagun• tines were Jujfieicntly provided for, the Confederates of hoth parties being excep· ted ·For it WM not added , ConfederateJ "dWd ~i~h h15 tha; then were , nor that none a.fttrward 2 eamt e Jh ,1 • 1_ ,rr. .1 11.T Jith it WM PtliJponnefia'lt oula oe ~~.11 umea. ;vow , t h pe1ce b:-rwc:en lawful! to ~tffume new Confederate~, tv 0 t~e LAcedttml· would think., it eqrtity , either. th~t A»J ,~ans andAtht .. fhould be recei.v'd into friendfhtp upon no "'ans. Tb~.cyd. d .r '- . . •d fho•ila not be defenlib. f• . eJ ert ,or oemg recet'iJ r• d~d I '1 IJe {ellnd 1' llfl. ~ 1" Jed: Only it was pr~v~qed, that the fel:. lows of the Carthagmtans fhou/d neither he tem,pted to revolt , nor he entertained revo,lting of t hetr owtt accord. Which words are almofl all tranfiated out of Po~ ly6iuu. \Vhat ihall we fay in this cafe'?Hiftor. Jib. 3, It cannot be denyed , but the word (on- · federates, wi hom any violence , may re-ceive both the ftriCf fignification of them whQ were fo in the time of the League , and the other more large which includes the future too. Wherefore we mull fee,by, the former rules, which interpretation is to be preferr'd: according to which rules , e fay, the future are not comprehended· becaufe the queflion is abouc rupture of the league, which is an odious matter; an~ ab?ut deprivin.g the C~trthaginiam of thell' L1berty, to uie fvrce of arms again(l fuch as were believed to have done them in j_ury: ~hich liberty is natural, nor is it tuppos d eafily quitted t. Was it not tR ·s 1 fi II h r omaru ~w- aw u t en, ror·the 'R.pmans to take the nitibus Sidi- Saguntines int:> foc1ety , or to defend cinos bello pc· them being admitted? Surely it was ,notterevolent~by vertue of the League , but by natural bbu7 petc~dtt· rt.g ht , w h' h b h L ulq; ut l per I~ y t e eague was not re- Romanos fieri nounced.! io that the Saguntines were, in liceret,refponrefpe6t of Both, in the fame condition, as ~erunt: Nihil if nothing had been aoreed concernina m~erced,, q!~~ z:, z:, flllntJ-4 S ammt1 f l'h b' • t: • pt~pulo paci& htl- 'q! • !rMm tJr ltrz.Ntn 11t. ~JV. Jib. 8. In Antiochi f~dere eft : Si fJUJ (o~wturn p~ul1 B. om am ultro btllMm i11fin·ent Ant~o,bo vim ri ar. ""~)'" t{l~: um n~ qu""! urpem aut belli jurt teNeat,atu i~ am:cuiam rte1p11U. L1v. 38. l oJybiiJSln exc;erptis Legationum, 3 5· their |