Mercenary troops
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mercenary troops · the wounded Sepoy
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Indian mercenary soldiers whose mutiny is attributed to caste-pollution beliefs.
Here we have one of the chief drawbacks on the historical usefulness of the sacred Hindu laws. In the course of their growth they have probably absorbed much customary law from without; but even in the earliest of them it probably has been changed in transmission, while in the latest it may have been borrowed from several different bodies of usage, irreconcilable in the principles from which they …
Areopagiticus
Paid soldiers on whom Athens is said to have wasted large sums.
For you resemble men in that state of mind—you who have lost all the cities in Thrace, squandered to no purpose more than a thousand talents on mercenary troops, provoked the ill-will of the Hellenes and the hostility of the barbarians, and, as if this were not enough, have been compelled to save the friends of the Thebans at the cost of losing our own allies;