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First from the matter: as the word Day (if a truce be made for Thirty days) ought to be understood of natural days, but not of Civil, being most agreeable to the sub∣ject matter. So the word donare (i. e.) to give freely is taken to transact according
to the quality of the affairs. The word, Arms, sometimes signifying instruments of War, and sometimes armed Souldiers, is to be understood in such a sence, as is most congruous to the matter whereunto it is conjoyned. So when men are promised to be delivered, it is to be understood of living men, not of dead, contrary to the Cavil of the Plataeans. So where Souldiers are required to lay down their Iron or Steel, it is enough if they lay down their weapons, and not their Steel Buttons, as Pericle•• would have it. And by a free departure out of a City, is meant a safe conduct to the place agreed on, contrary to that fact of Alexander. And by leaving half a Fleet, is meant the one half of the number of Ships whole, not dissected, contrary to what the Ro∣mans dealt with Antiochus. The same judgement may pass upon the like cases.