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Show < ~ap. I 8. 0/fie. r. ofW.v , ~J.J Prue cufed the Tei1uu for vitlualling the Ene· mies Navy, and promifing them Wine. adding, uitlets they would do the like fo; the Navy of the RtJmans, he would ac· count them for his Enemies. Auguflm faid: The City that receives my Enemy, u become my Enemr. It will be alia profitable to mihgle League with both fides 'Waging ~ar, to that, with rhe good will of both, it may be lawfu\1 to abHain from •ar, ~d exhibit the common offi. ces of -hurnamty to both. 'Tis in Livy: Let them ; .u beco'ltle i neutral ~iends, Jtjire pet;Ce , not interp(l(e themfelveJ in ehe w~tr. ~rchidamus -King of Spt~rta, when the Eleans feemed to encline tothc .Arcadr~tns party, wrote an EpiHle to them containing onely this : "'It u good to be quiet. LVII. Of thinl.J drme privately in puhlic~ War. WHat we have hitherto faid, mofi part, concerns them, who either have command in chief', or ·execute pub· lick orders. We muH al(ct fee, what is lawfoll privately in War, by the Law of N1ture, of God, or of Nations. Ctcero relates , that the Son of Cttto CenforiHJ ferved in 11he Airny of General Pom· piliu.r , and when, afcer thedifmiffionof that Legion wherein · he · ferved , the Youna· Man in lQve with war, had re· 0 ' mained in the Army , Cato wrote unto PimpUit~-s , that if he would have him ftay, he lhould give him an oath the fe• coDd time ; addmg this reafon , becaufe being dif-engaged from the fidl) he could I20t jufHy fight with the Enemy. CictrtJ fetteth down t.hc very words of Ct1.to to h\1 Son , whereby he admonilheth him , not to enter into Battel; for it is not }awfull, faith he , for one to fight the Bacmy , tha.t is no Souldier. So alfo we ~tad the praife of (hry{lmtM , one of Xtnoph. Cyrop. G'f'H6's Souidiers, who being upon his Ptut. ~u.tfl. En cmy, wt·t hd rew h't s Sw or d , h ear·m g ~ RMoAmr.c tU3o9. · (1o R!treat founded. Seneca faith : He u D • a e ' ull'd an unpro.1r:t ao,_ le Soul,a1 ier, w ho he ars e 1r , • • Jrt the fign giv~n for a retreat. But they are deceiv"d, who rhink this comes from the external Law of Nations : for if you rtgard chat, as it is Jawfull for every man "> feize upon the Enemies goods, to alfo 11> kill the Enemy; for by that Law the Enemies are of no account. Wherefore , that which (ato advtfed, comes from the Military Difcip1ine of the 1tfJmans: ~crein it was a Law , noted by Mo- L. de{trt~mn. uftinUI, that whofoever obeyed not his D. de rttmllt. Orders, lhould be 'punilht with death , though the matterfucceeded well. Now, be alfo was fuppos'd not to have obey-ed$' who out of· order, without the com-mand of .. the6eno-al, entred i~to any . &gbt as the Manlian command's do Lw. ~· 1· ' Manltana teach Imperia. |