Illustrious Hvgo Grotius of the Law of Warre and Peace with Annotations III Parts and Memorials of the Author's Life and Death

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414 · of War 41Ttl~:P.e•'u: .:· :: · without blame. Aud· fuch i.n ve'ry deed. • • t • ieemeth this to be, chat one prefer th"elife • h of a (Yrea t innocent multitude before his t Pr:axtt e:a a- :;, d .:: · Ph · h d * pud Euripi· own t. ~n thererorc . oct on ex Orte dtm. ~- i namqi Demofthenes and 'others ·, after the exam­numetOS, quz~q; ple of the daughters of Leu.r and the * {it pltU a~t. m•· Hyacinthrdn , r~ thcr to undergo death nzu ~tmpz .r;1U · h f ff · bl · f trni~o,noiJ mat11 themf\el vdesdt an u h~r _anCtrrepara Ce ~~ - rmiu~domus chie co e one tot e.r ountry. rcero commune vin~i, for p. Sextrus :If this had hal pened to me ftd ntc ,eq~an failing l:Pith my friends in fome fhip , that pot_c[t. p~~ot:n Pirates furroundintr us jhculd threaten to Inzquum J• '~'- . J' c. d . tum fieri acce[- fink., us all, except they rvoul de!zver me; (imem partiJ.. I would rather have.ca.fl- my {df i;~to the V.l. :z.. de vu. Sea, to pre[erve thG reft, than bring my ~~f~dor.l.•t· friends either to certain death,o~ int~ gr~at *VideApol- a:mgeroftheirl![e. The fametnhtsthu·d lod. in blblio- de Fttnbus: A good man, wife And obe­thcca. dient to the Lmvs, and not i.g·norant oJCt-vil duties, careth more for the intereft of Lib. 41• all, than of any one, or his own. In Livy we read it fpoken of certain Molojfi.ms: Ofun .have. I heard of men thar dyed .for t h-etr Country: hut the{e men are the firjf, that thought it fit , their Counrtry Jhou.!d perifh them.Bm,this being granred,a ?~ubt remains , whether the ~nnocent C~t~ze? may be cotnpell'd co ·do that which he 1& hound to do. SotPts denyes this, ufing the example of a rich man , who is bound by t·he preceptofMcrcy ro give Almes to tho poor, yet cannot be compeWd to give. But, we n uft note,tis one thing when 1he parts are compared among themfelves' another l T.he ftt~ntl another when Superioursare compared co · their fubje6h. For, an equal cannot compel! his equal , but unto that which is due by right firictly taken : yet may a Sup~ri~ur compell hts inferiour to othe.r things alfo which any vertue comtl'landst, t So, am~' . becaufe this is comprehended in the pro- thelu~~mm=• . h f . . h . - . a pun11u ...... per ng_ to a iupenou.r, as e ts lupen_our. was •ppoin~ccl * So , ·m great icarcity of corn, iub JCCts for t}:ae p o4t­may be forc'd to brino out what they gal: among have laid up. And therefore , in our con- t~e Mafce.lr !"c trover[y , J. t feemeth more true that th e Wn~1agnrs:,a eofu l'1-':• Citizen ma-y be compeld to do that whi.ch for rhe [harity requires. So, that Phocion, whom idle, among whom we have mentioned, pointing at t~e fame Luca-- hJ.S mo fl: d ear f n·e n d Nit'c pc l es ,la1' d , Th't ngs AmrahQens'i Jannsd. the w~re come to that extremity , that W..A- * Ldf.lib • .,.~ lexander fhould demand him , he fhould 9· dub.7. think he were to be delivered. Plutarch. CXXX. War may a/[o be undertak,:n juft­ly for Confederates,.for frie.'IIJds, yea for all men. Phoc. NExt to fubjeets ( yea qual in this , that they .ought to be defended) are Confederates in whofe Agreement this was comprehended: that is, whether they have yielded up themfelves to the fafe· guard and tru..fi of others , or have cove• named for mutuall fuccours. He that re· p~lleth not injury from his Fellow, if he be ~th!e, is in fault, iU he that ~JftrJ it, faith Amhrofe. As for Agrec:mept~ to war,when·om,. 1:1'~ there . (