The illustrious Hugo 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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Title: The illustrious Hugo Grotius Of the law of warre and peace with annotations, III parts, and memorials of the author's life and death.
Author: Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.
Publication: London :: Printed by T. Warren, for William Lee ...,; 1655.
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Subject terms: Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645.
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V. Defense may lawfully be omitted.

WHat we have said afore, although it be lawfull to kill him that at∣tempts to kill, yet he doth more com∣mendably who had rather be killed than kill; some do grant, so, that they except a person profitable to many: But, to me it seemeth unsafe, to impose this Law con∣trary to Patience upon all, in whose life others are concernd. Wherefore I may conceive it is to be restrained to them whose office 'tis to keep off force from o∣thers; such as are the companions in a journey undertaken on those termes, and publick Rulers, to whom that of Lucan may be applyed:

* 1.1 Twas cruelty to yeeld himself to death, So many thousands living by his breath.

Notes

* 1.1

Cum tot ab hac anima populorum vita salus{que} Pendeat, & tantus caput hoc sibi fecerit orb's, Saevitia est voluiste mori.—— Curtius lib. 10. Sed cum tam avidè manifestis periculis offeras cor∣pus, oblitus tot civium animas trabere te in casum.

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