King Theodoric
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Theodoric · Rex Theodoricus
in the texts
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
King cited for a saying on taking up arms when justice is refused.
‘Recourse must then be had to arms when justice can find no lodgment in an adversary’s heart’.
Et Rex Theodoricus:
The Rights of War and Peace
Ostrogothic king quoted on why laws were invented.
And “the reason, says King Theodoric, why laws were invented, was to prevent any one from using personal violence, for wherein would peace differ from all the confusion of war, if private disputes were terminated by force?
King Theodoric Cassiodor, calls it a shocking licence for one man to be detained as a pledge for another.