Prisoners of war
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prisoners · all the prisoners that were taken in the war · prisoners of war
in the texts
On Halonnesus
Captives from the war whom Philip claims to have restored.
Again, he says that he has restored all the prisoners that were taken in the war.
Cyropaedia
Captured enemies whose release and obedience become part of Cyrus’s imperial pacification policy.
For, if we are masters of the country, all they that dwell therein will be our prisoners of war;
Accordingly, Cyrus called the prisoners together and spoke as follows:
and in the second place, if we let them go, we shall have more prisoners of war than if we do not.