Civil War · Atlas

spoken of as

3 expressions

Civil wars2 mentions

Comparison of Solon and Publicola (Greek) · Comparison of Lucullus and Cimon (Greek)

the Civil War“English”1 mention

The Genius of the Common Law (English)

Cut short by violent death before our Civil War had begun, it must be pronounced extinct on this earth.

v.: rescue and ransom ¶

the civil wars1 mention

Comparison of Lucullus and Cimon (Greek)

One might deem Lucullus especially happy in his end, from the fact that he died before that constitutional change had come, which fate was already contriving by means of the civil wars.

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in the texts

LawsClassical · Greek

Civil strife (stasis), invoked as the context in which kin-killing in self-defense is exempted from ordinary homicide penalties.

If a brother kill a brother in fight during a civil war, or in any such way, acting in self-defence against the other, who first started the brawl, he shall be counted as one who has slain an enemy, and be held guiltless;

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Comparison of Lucullus and CimonImperial · Greek

The Roman civil conflicts that brought about the constitutional change Lucullus died before witnessing.

One might deem Lucullus especially happy in his end, from the fact that he died before that constitutional change had come, which fate was already contriving by means of the civil wars.

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Comparison of Solon and PublicolaImperial · Greek

Later conflicts down to which Publicola's political order preserved order in Rome, unlike Solon's polity which dissolved in his own lifetime.

The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–166019th Century · English

The English Civil War (from 1642), whose effects on constitutional proposals structure the whole passage.

The effect of the Civil War is to be seen by comparing with the Nineteen Propositions (No.

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Everything therefore boded a continuance of the war, and the union of the armies of the Parliaments of England and Scotland rendered it necessary to establish some authority which would control the united armies.

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On BenefitsImperial · Latin

The recurring Roman civil wars and proscriptions described as the consequence of ungrateful leaders turning against their country.

2 Ungrateful Gaius Marius, brought from the soldier's boot up to consulships, who, unless he matched the Roman funerals with the slaughters of the Cimbri, unless he both gave the signal for civil destruction and butchery and was himself the signal, will feel his fortune too little changed and restored to its former place.

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The Genius of the Common Law20th Century · English

The seventeenth-century English Civil War, referenced as the historical horizon immediately following the Star Chamber's abolition.

Cut short by violent death before our Civil War had begun, it must be pronounced extinct on this earth.

v.: rescue and ransom ¶