The most excellent Hugo Grotius, his three books treating of the rights of war & peace in the first is handled, whether any war be just : in the second is shewed, the causes of war, both just and unjust : in the third is declared, what in war is lawful, that is, unpunishable : with the annotations digested into the body of every chapter / translated into English by William Evats ...

XVI. Yet may chil∣dren be deny∣ed somethings w^ch otherwise they might have had.

But yet in case the Children of such Traitors may have, or expect to enjoy any thing whereof the peculiar Right is not in them, but in the King or People, it may be taken from them by a certain Right of Dominion, as it adds to the punishment of the offender. Hence it was that (as Plutarch observes) The posterity of Traitors were held uncapable of honours, as the Children of such as were proscribed by Sylla were among the Romans. So by the Law of Arcadius, it was provided (as a thing tolerable) against the Children of Traitors, That they should not be admitted into any honour or office in the Commonwealth.