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Show ofW4r ttnd Pettet join'd them, if they were not inju~'d: Iujuries they c?uld not endure,b.et n~lubdued into obedtence, not yet to iervltude, l.iv. Jib, 8.. That man of Privern, being asked in the · ·- Roman Senat , what peace the Romans could' exped: from them, anfwerd : If you grant us a good PMce,fait.hflll and firm: if an evil Peace~ not lajltng. He adds.a reafon: Believe tt, no people, no man Wtl/ ~bide, longer than he muft need/, in th11t Liv. lib. S. ~ondition that Is not pleajing. So Camillus faid ; It is the firm eft 'Empire , wherewith the fubjeCl:s are heft content~d. HermoDiod. lib.r3. crates in ~iodorus : It is not Jo honorable to overcome , tU to ufe the viCtory with t1 Scytdhz A- gentlene"'s and moderation t· exan ro: J" INter Daminum • o-[ervum •u!Ja amicitia; ttiam in pact, h~lli tamm ru~.a (irvwur. curt.lib. 7. Salubri Taciti Sementia : Btllotum tgre;,u fines, quotill igno{centlo tranfigitur. In ~faris Ditt.acori~ epifi:ola eG .: H•t 71ova fit ratio vinetndi, ttt miferico;dia t!; Meral1tatt nas mu~'a.mtt4, The Lacedemonians in Thucyd1•Je,. It b. r. ~e .tre o~ opmwn, quarels.are turned in firm cqn<;ord. thus; not 1f one, 1n reve1·ge and taking advamage by his ·ftJccefs, imt1ofe IJpon ot~ers a ncref. ftty of fwearing to uaequal arci.des : bUT , t , when he •s able co do fo, he ufc: as much equity now., as nlour before, and COlllpofc matters with as much mo.dc~auoo a~ may be. LV. Refiitution of thin~s unjuftly tak.§n away. 0/Jjeftions anfwer·d. 'fHings gotten by unjull War are to be refiored , as we have faid above· and not onel y by thofe that took them : but alfo by others to whom the things byany means are come. For , no man '. can transfer upon another more rioht than he had himfelf, fay the Authors0 of L. t1.1ditio .·'D. the Roman Law; which Seneca briefly d~•cq. daw. : · ns, 'N,_o man cal! give what he hath L1b. f· de bt'll!f. He had not dominion internAl, who c•p. n. firft Taker : wherefore, neither will have .it, who derives his title from ; the fecond then, or the third Pof ·, hath received that dominion , we call external; that is, this , that every where he js by jucfithority and power to be mainas the Owner: which yet, if he againfi him , from whom the things by injufiice taken away. he will dilhoneHly. Such tnirtgs therefore are be rendred to thofe from whom they taken away: which, we fee~ hath t times done. Livy, when he had ti'll.lib. 3 • how the 1/o/fci and v£qui were· d by L. LucretiUJ TricipitinUJ , ' the fpoyl was expos""d in Camptu ' that every one for the fpace or daies might know and receive his T t own. \ |
