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ADDRESSES ON WAR
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When kings make war, No law betwixt two sovereigns can decide, But that of arms, where Fortune is the judge, Soldiers the lawyers, and the Bar the field.
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; [Footnote:
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Puro pioqne duello. --_Historie_, Lib. I. cap. 32.] the dramatist Plautus has a character in one of his plays who obtains great riches
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[Footnote:
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Arte duellica. --_Epidicus_, Act. III. Sc. iv. 14.] meaning the art of war; and Horace, the exquisite master of language, hails the age of Augustus with the Temple of Janus closed and
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[Footnote:
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Vacuum duellis.
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who, after combat in a chosen field, succeeded by a feint in driving his weapon four fingers deep into the throat of his adversary, and then, rolling with him, gasping and struggling, on the ground, thrust his dagger into the nostrils of the fallen victim, exclaiming,
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Surrender, or you are a dead man! --a speech which seemed superfluous; for the second cried out,
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He is dead already; you have conquered. Then did Bayard, brightest among the Sons of War, drag his dead enemy from the field, crying,
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Have I done enough?