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Show * Ja the w:tr mona the Greek! of old c_Mina * , now o~ the French amo~" Soldiers a months pay goes for w.1thdt~e 1SP",- a ranfome. Plutarch relates, that hereto- nun tn ta y, . a horfman was fore wars were waged between the (orm-redl! em•d for thia1JS and Megareans mildly , and Jo aJ ~e tounh of b'ecreme men of the fame blood. If any one b 5 15 YM '"erl~ pay, were taken , he was entertained by the ee aruma • 1. ~ 7. 1 8 . Taker ,as a Guefl:, and ient home upon ~· GrTc. promife of a price for his deliverance. 11:r•c Lke That of PyrrhU6 t commended by Cteero, goodnefs of bl · d T iber :w. a argues a mor~ no c mm : Chri{boEm• l'eror W4'aJd Nee ml aurum pofco , nee mt pretiur~t tm Pcdi-.m is dederitis ; COnl'> e J._d by tvlernndcr Frrro non auro vitam cernamus tttri• Prm:c·~1or: f S·f-='·Ll l\\ by :Mar;an 1 , aud of'~,aU-91US King 0f Ca.fble3 LiiJ. It que. Qunrum fortl4na belli fortuna pepcr· cit , [omndam !thertati me parcere certum eft. Apud Ciceroncm de Offic. No gold for me , no price do I re• quire: To fight it out with fieel is my de· fire. The ~ali:>.nt men , to whom good for· tune gave . Their life , by my gif,t Liberty lhall · have. <J'yrrhm , no do~bt , believed his war 'jufl: : ~everthelefs, he thought fit to fpne their liberty, who on probable caufe we;d , engag gao'd again!l him. The like aCt of Cyrm 2.. Cyro;ued. is ~elebrated by Xenophon, of Phibp the _Macedonianafter his vietory in Chttronea Vitavem; by Polybim, of e/.llex.-tnder toward the Strab.l. 7. Scythtans by Curtit-ts , of cp,o~omy ~he Kutoand of DemetrittJ , contendtng. wtch ro . b one another not more m "''ar than m e-nignity toward Captives, ?Y Pfu~arch. And 'Dromichtttes King of the Geres , . . . havinataken Lyjimachus* in war, m;~de * Dtod~ SJC,tlJ him hios gueH, and prev~u'.ld on h'n n i'o f ~t., excerpt. that having experien_ce bot b of ~the q ettck poverty and courteiy .' he. choie 1:1ther to have fuch men for hts fncnd~ than crte-mies. L IV. ~ Temperament about 'acquijititin of Empire. ' Cap. 15. 'THat Equity which is requir'd,or that P'i~. d~ jure H umam·t y w h'J C h l·S comm-,.. 11ded • to- belLI. n. 3s . & ward particular perfons, is fo much ':_lo re 59· requir' d or commended toward Nattons or the parts of Nations , by how much more fional is· the ' injury and the bencnefit d~ne to many. By .a juft. w~~ , as other things may be acqUired, 1o a.lo the right of a Ruler over people , and the right which the people themfelv~s have in the empire : but (to be fu.re ) io far : s the meafure either of the pumfhment _art· fin• from the fault, or the meafurc of torw~ other debt will bear. To which is to be added the caufc of avoiding cxcrem~ d:to- . gcr. |
