 | Charles James - English language - 1805 - 1236 pages
...resolved to extirpate each other, if possible, out of the world. Before the Grecians engaged themselves in war, it was usual to publish a declaration of the injuries they had received, and to demand satisfaction by ambassadors : for however prepared, or excellently skilled they were in the affairs... | |
 | William Duane - Electronic books - 1810 - 774 pages
...resolved to extirpate each other, if possible, out of the world. Before the Grecians engaged themselves in war, it was usual to publish a declaration of the injuries they had received, and to demand satisfaction by ambassadors ; for however prepared, or excellently skilled, they were ir the affairs... | |
 | John Potter (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1818 - 618 pages
...making Peace and declaring War, their Ambassadors, #c. 15r. ror; K the Grecians engaged themselves in war, it was usual to publish a declaration of the injuries they had received, and to demand satisfaction by ambassadors ; for, however prepared or excellently skilled they were in the affairs... | |
 | John Potter - 1818 - 626 pages
...making Peace and declaring War, their Ambassadors, &c. IJr.ini: r. the Grecians engaged themselves in war, it was usual to publish a declaration of the injuries they had received, and to demand satisfaction by ambassadors ; for, however prepared or excellently skilled they were in the affairs... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...a public declaration communicated to the enemy. It was the custom of the ancient Greeks and Romans, to publish a declaration of the injuries they had received, and to send a herald to the enemy's borders to demand satisfaction, before they actually engaged in war ;... | |
 | John Potter - 1840 - 864 pages
...into the field. CHAP. VII. OF THEIR MANNER OF MAKING PEACE AND DECLARING WAR, THE1H AMBASSADORS, &C. BEFORE the Greeks engaged in war, it was usual to...declaration of the injuries they had received, and to demand satisfaction by ambassadors ; for, however prepared or excellently skilled they were in the affairs... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...a public declaration communicated to the enemy. It was the custom of the ancient Grecks and Romans to publish a declaration of the injuries they had received, and to send a herald to the enemy's borders to demand satisfaction, before they actually engaged in war ;... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - Military art and science - 1853 - 384 pages
...details of their martial deeds have chiefly occupied the songs of the poet, or the pen of the historian. Before the Greeks engaged in war, it was usual to...hands a staff of laurel, entwined with two serpents, aa emblems of peace, or an olive-branch covered with wool, and adorned with different sorts of fruits.... | |
 | AMOS DEAN, LL.D. - 1869 - 558 pages
...invaded, having the same friends and enemies. Prior to engaging in war, it was usual for the Greeks to publish a declaration of the injuries they had received, and to demand reparation. This was done by their embassadors. Both the embassador and herald were deemed sacred personages, and... | |
 | John Francis Arundell Baron Arundell of Wardour - International law - 1872 - 478 pages
...ages they lived in." — Potter i " Archceologia," ii. c. 12. " Before the Greeks engaged themselves in war it was usual to publish a declaration of the injuries they had received, and to demand satisfaction by ambassadors ; which custom was observed even in the most early agei. ... It is therefore... | |
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K the Grecians engaged themselves in war, it was usual to publish a declaration of the injuries they had received, and to demand satisfaction by ambassadors ; for, however prepared or excellently skilled they were in the affairs of war, yet peace, if... 
